Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Overview

Reproduction of the original: Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783752358223
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	07/28/2020
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) was a militant abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, outspoken financial backer of John Brown's raid, commander of the first regiment of freed slaves to fight in the Civil War, Emily Dickinson's friend and editor, and one of the best American essayists of the nineteenth century.

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Howard N. Meyer

Stirring tales of courage and insurrection where you meet the real Nat Turner, and some who preceded him as fighters for freedom.

Editorial Reviews

Offers studies of five slave insurrections in the US, Jamaica, and Surinam, written by a militant abolitionist and commander of the first regiment of freed slaves to fight in the Civil War. The accounts were first published separately in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s and 1860s, and reprinted between hard covers in 1889 as part of Travellers and Outlaws. This is an unabridged republication of the edition published in New York in 1969. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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