Five essays on armed resistance to slavery: the unconquered Maroons of the Jamaican mountains, the Maroons of Surinam, Gabriel’s planned rising in Virginia, Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy in Charleston and Nat Turner’s insurrection. Higginson works from trial records and contemporary accounts, listed in an appendix.
Written by the abolitionist who commanded a Black Union regiment, a sympathetic early history of slave revolt. Download the free EPUB.