Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (Washington DC Howard University)

Rebellious Passage

The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the successful slave revolt aboard the US slave ship Creole during the early 1840s and its consequences. Drawing upon previously unexamined federal sources, British colonial documents, states' records, and American and British newspapers, it examines the neglected maritime dimensions of the US slave trade and slave revolt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 228mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781108700009
• ISBN-10: 1108700004
• Artikelnr.: 54313945

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie is Professor of History at Howard University, Washington DC and author of Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900 (1999); Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (2007); and Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Eagle versus lion
2. The coastal passage
3. 'Several cases'
4. 'Engaged in the business ever since she was constructed'
5. 'The Negroes have risen'
6. 'Their determination to quit the vessel'
7. 'Old neighbors'
8. 'A new state of things'
9. 'Property rights' versus 'rights of man'
10. Causa Proxima, Non Remota, Spectator
11. 'Full and final settlement'
Epilogue.