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Rebels and Runaways - Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (Hardcover, New)
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Rebels and Runaways - Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (Hardcover, New)
Series: New Black Studies Series
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This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in
antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to
1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and
probate records, ledgers, account books, court records, oral
histories, and numerous newspaper accounts, Larry Eugene Rivers
discusses the historical significance of Florida as a runaway slave
haven dating back to the seventeenth century and explains Florida's
unique history of slave resistance and protest. In moving detail,
Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose
families were pulled asunder as they relocated from the Upper South
to the Lower South to an untamed place such as Florida, and how
they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their
own lives. Against a smoldering backdrop of violence, this study
analyzes the various degrees of slave resistance--from the
perspectives of both slave and master--and how they differed in
various regions of antebellum Florida. In particular, Rivers
demonstrates how the Atlantic world view of some enslaved blacks
successfully aided their escape to freedom, a path that did not
always lead North but sometimes farther South to the Bahama Islands
and Caribbean. Identifying more commonly known slave rebellions
such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel,
and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that
the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second
Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection ever
to occur in American history. Meticulously researched, Rebels and
Runaways offers a detailed account of resistance, protest, and
violence as enslaved blacks fought for freedom.
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