Thomas Wentworth Higginson Joshua Coffin William Wells Brown
A collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas. Who will tell the stories of those who refused to be slaves? The Atlantic slave trade transported millions of humans from the coasts of West Africa into the New World, stripping them of their dignity, freedom, language and culture. The accepted notion is that these Blacks willingly submitted to the chattel slave system, accepting their new lot in life. When one scours the records, a different story emerges. Black Rebellion chronicles the active resistance of Africans in the...
A collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas. Who will tell the stories of tho...
Resume AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes the marble slopes of the Pirates' Cave, it is natural to think of the ten wrecks with which the past winter has strewn this shore. Though almost all trace of their presence is already gone, yet their mere memory lends to these cliffs a human interest. Where a stranded vessel lies, thither all steps converge, so long as one plank remains upon another. There centres the emotion. All else is but the setting, and the eye sweeps with indifference the...
Resume AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes th...
