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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharples, Jason T., 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Colección:Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.