American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide

A Reference Guide

Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861.

• Offers an overview of American slave revolts and conspiracies to revolt
• Explores the context of chronic fear of uprising in slaveholding colonies and states in North America from 1663 to 1861
• Offers accounts gleaned from primary resources regarding slave leaders and their lieutenants, and of the trials that condemned them
• Describes the climate of fear in which slaveholding whites lived, as well as the various social practices and legal statutes they enacted to minimize the risk of slave revolt
• Includes a narrative, primary materials, biographics, a chronology, and an annotated bibliography—all of which will be helpful to students writing papers on the topic