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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sharples, Jason T., 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Slave rebellions > United States > History > 17th century.
Slave rebellions > United States > History > 18th century.
Slave rebellions > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Slave rebellions > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Révoltes d'esclaves > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Révoltes d'esclaves > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Révoltes d'esclaves > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Révoltes d'esclaves > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Race relations
Slave rebellions
United States > Race relations > History > 17th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 18th century.
Caribbean Area > Race relations > History > 17th century.
Caribbean Area > Race relations > History > 18th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 17e siècle.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Caraïbes (Région) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Caraïbes (Région) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Caribbean Area
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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