If We Must Die : Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade /

If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others rag...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Taylor, Eric Robert, 1971-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Ships.
Slaves (economy)
Revolts.
Schiff
Sklavenhandel
Sklavenaufstand
Slave trade > America > History.
Slave trade > Africa > History.
Slave trade.
Slave insurrections.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Revoltes d'esclaves > Histoire.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique > Histoire.
Slave insurrections > History.
Atlantic region.
Africa > History > Slavery and bondage.
North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America > History > Slavery and bondage.
America.
Africa.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Enslavement, detention, and the middle passage
  • Conditions favorable for revolt
  • Precautions against revolt
  • Revolt
  • Unsuccessful revolts
  • Successful revolts
  • Shipboard revolts in the Americas : a new wave
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Chronology of shipboard slave revolts, 1509-1865.

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