But the girl , deeply in love with Moko , refuses this marriage of convenience . Trying to escape , the lovers are surprised by the tyrannical chief , who savagely kills Moko ; Anne - Marie denounces the murder to the colonial ...
Fictional version of an aborted slave rebellion in 1831, based on the true story.
Even in adhering to respectable religion , slaves , in the words of Eugene Genovese , were developing a “ most powerful defense against the dehumanization implicit in slavery . ... drawing on a religion that was supposed to ensure their ...
Presents a tribute to unsung antislavery heroes, including Cinque, an African captive who was defended before the Supreme Court by John Quincy Adams; rebel Nat Turner; and Harriet Tubman. Reprint.
David Brion Davis, perhaps the foremost student of comparative slavery, warns that “the history of slavery is an ... 1991); and the pioneering study—Frank Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas (New York: Knopf, ...
Set in 1831, "The Confessions Of Nat Turner" tells--in his own words--of a black man who awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. His name is Nat Turner and he...
Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt introduces readers to the documents needed to understand both the revolt and the ongoing discussion among scholars about the legacy of the insurrection.
Pitted against Charleston's intendant, James H. Hamilton, Jr., Denmark Vesey goes into hiding as the plot begins to unravel.
Mentu, an enslaved child, learns the stories, songs, and drum rhythms of his people from his grandmother, Twi, and then must find the strength to carry on this heritage after his grandmother leads the insurrection of enslaved people at ...
Schwarz-Bart, author of The Last of the Just, and whose own terrible experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe here find a clear if distant echo, offers a sensitive and impassioned portrait of a woman and her race, fallen victim to the inhumanity ...
In graphic novel format, tells the true story of the 1831 Virginia slave rebellion led by slave Nat Turner, who believed he was a prophet.