Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade

ISBN-13: 9781108476249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 372 str.

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

Opis

Examines the successful slave revolt aboard the US slave ship Creole during the early 1840s and its consequences.

Recenzje

'… Kerr-Ritchie patiently untangles the twisted threads in what many readers will consider the most arcane aspect of this story … Rebellious Passage does a marvellous job contextualizing and analyzing the revolt and its repercussions.' Jon Scott Logel, The Northern Mariner

Spis treści

1. Eagle versus lion; 2. The coastal passage; 3. 'Several cases'; 4. 'Engaged in the business ever since she was constructed'; 5. 'The Negroes have risen'; 6. 'Their determination to quit the vessel'; 7. 'Old neighbors'; 8. 'A new state of things'; 9. 'Property rights' versus 'rights of man'; 10. Causa Proxima, Non Remota, Spectator; 11. 'Full and final settlement'; Epilogue.