The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America

(Part of the Early American Studies Series)

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A thought-provoking history of slaveholders' fear of the people they enslaved and its consequences

From the Stono Rebellion in 1739 to the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831, slave insurrections have been understood as emblematic rejections of enslavement, the most powerful and, perhaps, the only way for slaves to successfully challenge the brutal system they endured. In The World That Fear Made, Jason...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812252195

ISBN13:9780812252194

Release Date:July 2020

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:365 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America

(Part of the Early American Studies Series)

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