In this Book
- Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The New Black Studies Series
Against a smoldering backdrop of violence, this study analyzes the various degrees of slave resistance--from the perspectives of both slave and master--and how they differed in various regions of antebellum Florida. In particular, Rivers demonstrates how the Atlantic world view of some enslaved blacks successfully aided their escape to freedom, a path that did not always lead North but sometimes farther South to the Bahama Islands and Caribbean. Identifying more commonly known 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 ever to occur in American history.
Meticulously researched, Rebels and Runaways offers a detailed account of resistance, protest, and violence as enslaved blacks fought for freedom.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Part One: Resistance by Wiles
- Chapter 1: Day-to-Day Resistance
- pp. 11-24
- Part Two: Running Away
- Chapter 3: Away without Leave
- pp. 39-50
- Chapter 4: A Yearning for Freedom
- pp. 51-63
- Chapter 5: Destinations of Runaways
- pp. 64-76
- Chapter 6: Flight Away from Florida
- pp. 77-89
- Chapter 8: Catch the Runaway
- pp. 106-118
- Part Three: Violent Resistance
- Chapter 9: Slave Violence
- pp. 121-130
- Chapter 10: The Second Seminole War
- pp. 131-145
- Chapter 11: The Civil War
- pp. 146-160
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