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African Americans South Carolina Charleston Social conditions Charleston (S.C.) History 1775-1865 Charleston (S.C.) Race relations History Enslaved persons Virginia Southampton County Biography HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Insurrection de Southampton, 1831 Révoltes d'esclaves Virginie Southampton (Comté) Histoire 19e siècle Slave rebellions Slavery South Carolina Charleston History Slaves South Carolina Charleston HistoryFilter By Subjects
African Americans South Carolina Charleston Social conditions Charleston (S.C.) History 1775-1865 Charleston (S.C.) Race relations History Enslaved persons Virginia Southampton County Biography HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Insurrection de Southampton, 1831 Révoltes d'esclaves Virginie Southampton (Comté) Histoire 19e siècle Slave rebellions Slavery South Carolina Charleston History Slaves South Carolina Charleston HistoryKatz, William Loren
Summary: "Generations of American history students have grown up believing that slave rebellion was relatively rare, that slaves accepted their lot and became attached to their masters, and that they were ultimately liberated with little or no effort of their own. Centering Black voices and slave narratives, celebrated historian and children's book author, William Loren Katz offers a thoroughly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 326.0973 KATWatts, Nic
Summary: "When C.L.R. James's play "Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History" opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it marked the first time black actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this groundbreaking play ended its run, the script was lost for almost seventy years. Then a draft copy was found among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 972.94 WATKaye, Anthony E.
Summary: "In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed, well over a hundred people, Black and white, lay dead or were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURNER, NAT KAYKelly, Joseph
Summary: An account of the two hundred-year practice of slavery in Charleston examines its hotly contested debates and early slave rebellions through the Nullification crisis and the secession that sparked the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013