In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina,
learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black
population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion. Among the
leaders was a free ...Black carpenter named Denmark Vesey. After a
brief investigation and what some have considered a dubious trial,
Vesey and thirty-five others were convicted of attempted
insurrection and hanged.
Although the rebellion never came to fruition, it nonetheless
fueled Black antislavery movements in the United States and
elsewhere. To this day, activists, politicians, writers, and
scholars debate the significance of the conspiracy, how to
commemorate it, and the integrity of the archival records it left
behind. Fugitive Movements memorializes this attempted liberation
movement with new interpretations of the event as well as
comparisons to other Black resistance throughout the Atlantic
World-including Africa, the Caribbean, and the Northern United
States.
This volume situates Denmark Vesey and antislavery rebellion
within the current scholarship on abolition that places Black
activists at the center of the story. It shows that Black
antislavery rebellion in general, and the 1822 uprising by Black
Charlestonians in particular, significantly influenced the history
of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. The essays collected in this
volume explore not only that history, but also the ongoing struggle
over the memory of slavery and resistance in the Atlantic
World.
Manisha Sinha, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American
History at the University of Connecticut and author of The Slave's
Cause: A History of Abolition, provides the foreword.
A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey s Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies ...and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the U.S. slave population stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter began the Civil War, and where Dylann Roof shot nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, the congregation of Denmark Vesey, a black revolutionary who plotted a massive slave insurrection in 1822.
In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people—men, women, and children—shocking the South. Nearly as many black ...people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents important new evidence about the violence and the community in which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and victims and reinterpreting the most important account of that event, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Drawing upon largely untapped sources, David F. Allmendinger Jr. reconstructs the lives of key individuals who were drawn into the uprising and shows how the history of certain white families and their slaves—reaching back into the eighteenth century—shaped the course of the rebellion.
Never before has anyone so patiently examined the extensive private and public sources relating to Southampton as does Allmendinger in this remarkable work. He argues that the plan of rebellion originated in the mind of a single individual, Nat Turner, who concluded between 1822 and 1826 that his own masters intended to continue holding slaves into the next generation. Turner specifically chose to attack households to which he and his followers had connections. The book also offers a close analysis of his Confessions and the influence of Thomas R. Gray, who wrote down the original text in November 1831. The author draws new conclusions about Turner and Gray, their different motives, the authenticity of the confession, and the introduction of terror as a tactic, both in the rebellion and in its most revealing document.
Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history.
“A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended.”— Choice
Brilliantly conceptualized, exhaustively researched, and eloquently written, it is a gold mine for anyone interested in ...America's ongoing dilemma with slavery and race.--John Stauffer, author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
This stunning and magisterial documentary history accumulates and analyzes much evidence never before considered adequately, if at all. The work of fifteen years by assiduous senior historians of slave rebellions, it not only considers the prehistory of the affair but also the long aftermath.--David Moltke-Hansen, editor of William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Civil War: Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters
Will surely become the definitive source on the Vesey conspiracy. Such an impressive assemblage and explication of records show not only how Vesey's actions contributed to America's Civil War but also why he continues to influence us, particularly in the South.--Bernard E. Powers Jr., author of Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885
Places the Denmark Vesey conspiracy in a broad context. This volume should put to rest the argument by some historians that the conspiracy was little more than 'loose talk' among those held in bondage.--Loren Schweninger, author of Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for attempting to raise an insurrection in Charleston, South Carolina. In The Denmark Vesey Affair , Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate and interpret a vast collection of contemporary documents that illuminate and contextualize this complicated saga, ultimately arguing that the Vesey plot was one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the United States. This is the definitive account of a landmark event that spurred the South to secession.
Douglas R. Egerton , professor of history at Le Moyne College, is the author of Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America . Robert L. Paquette , executive director of The Alexander Hamilton Institute in Clinton, New York, is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas.
A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
In October 2019, Chile is the scene of a social explosion that will deeply shake a country deemed stable. The purpose of this article is to study this unprecedented social mobilization since the end ...of the dictatorship through the relations between the power and the demonstrators thanks to the analysis of the reactions of the government, the collaborations between the different groups, symbols used in the practices of resistance to power and to the security forces of the State and of the collective constituted by the « Front line ». The movement will be studied in according to its chronology.
The local community around the Nat Turner
rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner
involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the
women and children, free and ...enslaved, who lived in Southampton
County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's
multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the
inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical
locations but also their social relationships in space and time.
Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that
reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and
survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African
Americans continued those practices through the rebellion's
immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women
and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the
lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831.
A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving
Southampton sheds new light on the places and people
surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.
In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the ...rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.
Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers—how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.
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Whiteness was abundantly in evidence during the 2020 election in the United States and subsequently when a white mob stormed the Capitol to protest what they regarded as a stolen election. I suggest ...that we locate the confluence of "God, guns, and country" on that day on a settler-colonial and imperial landscape, tracing how a territorial white subject comes to feel racial entitlement and aggrievement through Christianity, an affect that is evident when we consider Muslims in the white imaginary.
William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two
important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the
most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution.
...Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August
10, 1792 , and Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss
Soldiers , both painted in about 1794, represent events that
helped turn the English against the Revolution. Pressly places both
paintings in their historical context-a time of heightened
anti-French hysteria-and relates them to pictorial conventions:
contemporary history painting, the depiction of urban mobs in
satiric and festival imagery, and Hogarth's humorous presentation
of modern moral subjects, all of which Zoffany adopted and
reinvented for his own purposes. Pressly relates the paintings to
Zoffany's status as a German-born Catholic living in Protestant
England and to Zoffany's vision of revolutionary justice and the
role played by the sansculottes, women, and blacks. He also
examines the religious dimension in Zoffany's paintings, showing
how they broke new ground by conveying Christian themes in a
radically new format. Art historians will find Pressly's book of
immense value, as will cultural historians interested in religion,
gender, and race.
