Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Overview

e-artnow presents to you "Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Contents: - The Maroons of Jamaica - The Maroons of Surinam - Gabriel's Defeat - Denmark Vesey - Nat Turner's Insurrection - Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment, from 1862-1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed people, women and other disfranchised peoples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788027308620
Publisher:	E-Artnow
Publication date:	12/30/2020
Pages:	68
Sales rank:	826,773
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.14(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.

What People are Saying About This

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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