Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series) - Softcover

Rivers, Larry Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252079663 ISBN 13: 9780252079665

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2013

Synopsis

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, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses Florida's unique historical significance as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Identifying 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 in American history.

About this title

Book Description:

A comprehensive investigation of slave escape in antebellum Florida

About the Author:

Larry Eugene Rivers is president of Fort Valley State University in central Georgia and the author of Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0252079663
• ISBN 13: 9780252079665
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264