"precipitated the Cotton States into devolution," and plunged into rebellion against the National Government. From this our Correspondent will see that, in our judgment, Slavery has been the means ...
By then word of the rebellion had gotten out to ... but in a close vote decided to retain slavery and to support a repressive policy against black people, slave and free.
that declaration produced the rebellion, and if the insurrection ... They and we may wish that the war was avowedly against Slavery, but in the meantime we must be content with an installment ...
The former property of a slave-ship captain, Vesey had first-hand experience of slavery's brutality. He carefully planned the revolt for four years, with the help of Gullah Jack, a conjurer from ...
The Charleston workhouse rebellion was not a rallying cry against slavery, but it did influence local and state politics; it is, therefore, worthy of the attention it receives in All for Liberty.’ ...
A rebellion by enslaved people may have ... Prof Andrews says Haiti isn’t talked about as much as it ‘goes against the narrative’ of how slavery came to be abolished. He said: “We like ...
Nat Turner, the most famous slave rebel in American history ... few names in the long American struggle over slavery carry such a weight of both heroism and shuddering fear.