The world that fear made : slave revolts and conspiracy scares in early America /
"The conspiracy scare phenomenon emerged from a combination of enslaved people's traumatic experience of terror and enslavers' awareness of their culpability and exposure to the people whom they exploited. On at least ninety-six documented occasions before 1790, colonial officials in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The cup of wrath is almost full
- Making sense of strangers: The invention of Anglo-American slave conspiracy
- Studying the horizon: The stories and circumstances that conjured demons
- Seeking truth through terror: Coercion and survival inside the courtroom and the jail
- The risk of relations: Community-seeking and the politics of association
- The accountants, the opportunists, and the rebels: Taking chances in the era of the Seven Years' War
- Governing in a world of fear: Political mobilization in the American Revolutionary era
- The transforming fires of the Haitian Revolution.