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Cry Liberty de Peter Charles Hoffer

Cry Liberty: New Narratives in American History (Paperback)

Autor Peter Charles Hoffer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2011
The book narrates the Stono River uprising of 1739, a slave rebellion that took the lives of over two dozen whites and as many as two hundred blacks in colonial South Carolina, was the largest North American mainland slave insurrection during the English colonial era.
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ISBN-13: 9780195386608
ISBN-10: 0195386604
Pagini: 173
Ilustrații: 15 black and white halftones, 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 122 x 170 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Seria New Narratives in American History (Paperback)

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Descriere

The story of slavery in the colonial New World is, in part, one of rebellion. In Jamaica, Hispaniola, Dutch Surinam and elsewhere, massive uprisings threatened European rule. But not in British North America. Between the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the American Revolution in 1775, the colonies experienced only one notable revolt, on South Carolina's Stono River in 1739, and it lasted a single day. Yet, writes Peter Charles Hoffer, as brief as this event was,historians have misunderstood it--and have thus overlooked its deeper significance.In "Cry Liberty," Hoffer provides a deeply researched and finely nuanced narrative of the Stono River conflict, offering uncomfortable insights into American slavery. In particular, he draws on new sources to reexamine this one dramatic day. According to conventional wisdom, recently imported African slaves-warriors in spirit and training-learned of an impending war between England and Spain. Seeking freedom from Spanish authorities, the argument runs, they launched a well-planned uprising inorder to escape to Florida. But Hoffer has mined legislative and legal records, land surveys, and first-hand accounts to identify precisely where the fighting began, trace the paths taken by rebels and militia, and offer a new explanation of its causes. Far from a noble, well-crafted revolt, hereveals, the slaves were simply breaking into a store to take what they thought was their due, and chance events put them on a path no participant had originally intended. The truth is a far less heroic, but far more of a human tragedy.Richly researched, crisply told, and unflinchingly honest, this book uncovers the grim truth about the violent wages of slavery and sheds light on why North America had so few slave rebellions.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE: THE LAND AND THE WATER; 1. At Hutchenson's Store; 2. Inhuman Bondage; 3. Terror in the Night; 4. On the Pon Pon Road; 5. Never Forget; EPILOGUE: MEANINGS; EXPLANATORY ESSAY-READING THE SOURCES ON STONO; NOTES; INDEX