American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt

New York Times Bestseller

“Breathtaking. [Rasmussen’s] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself—about how fiction can become fact, and how ‘history’ is sometimes nothing more than erasure.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

“Deeply researched, vividly written, and highly original.” —Eric Foner, historian and bestselling author of Reconstruction

Historian Daniel Rasmussen reveals the long-forgotten history of A...