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

Framsida
LSU Press, 2006 - 266 sidor
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 raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determi.

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Introduction
1
Enslavement Detention and the Middle Passage
15
Conditions Favorable for Revolt
41
Unsuccessful Revolts
104
A New Wave
139
Conclusion
164
Chronology of Shipboard Slave Revolts 15091865
179
Notes
215
Bibliography
241
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