Author: Joshua BryantPublisher:
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Category : Guyana
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara, which Broke Out on the 18th of August, 1823
Author: Joshua BryantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guyana
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara, Which Broke Out on the 18th of August, 1823 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Joshua BryantPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282364991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Excerpt from Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara, Which Broke Out on the 18th of August, 1823 The present Writer, who has constantly resided in' the Colony for the last fifteen years, has, in his profession as an' Artist, accu mulated a variety of Graphic Studies from Nature - and intends. If suitable encouragement offers, to publish in England a selection of the best, with additions from a new port-folio, Which he proposes to form as soon as circumstances shall permit.tuous passions of human nature, breaking out into acts of open outrage and rebellion, and threatening the destruction of established go vernment, -is, by no means, a pleasing or gran tifying labour. The Author, however, having been furnished with accurate information re-a specting these unhappy events, from various sources, conceived that, by a plain Narrative of facts, he would discharge himself of a public duty, -and might be able, at the same time, to refer to it asa faithful and authentic record. In the performance of this task, he has studiously abstained from invidious comments: how he has acquitted himself otherwise, he leaves to the decision of an' indulgent public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara, Which Broke Out On the 18Th of August, 1823
Author: Joshua BryantPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016261449
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara, which Broke Out on the 18th of Aug. 1823
Author: Joshua BryantAccount of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara, Which Broke Out on the 18th of August, 1823 - Primary Source Edition
Author: Joshua BryantPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781289365462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demarara,
Author: Joshua BryantConfronting Black Jacobins
Author: Gerald HornePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583675647
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti’s mainland neighbor, the United States. Inspiring the enslaved and partisans of emancipation while striking terror throughout the Southern slaveocracy, it propelled the fledgling nation one step closer to civil war. Gerald Horne’s path breaking new work explores the complex and often fraught relationship between the United States and the island of Hispaniola. Giving particular attention to the responses of African Americans, Horne surveys the reaction in the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti, the splitting of the island in 1844, which led to the formation of the Dominican Republic, and the failed attempt by the United States to annex both in the 1870s. Drawing upon a rich collection of archival and other primary source materials, Horne deftly weaves together a disparate array of voices—world leaders and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom fighters he terms Black Jacobins. Horne at once illuminates the tangled conflicts of the colonial powers, the commercial interests and imperial ambitions of U.S. elites, and the brutality and tenacity of the American slaveholding class, while never losing sight of the freedom struggles of Africans both on the island and on the mainland, which sought the fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of 18th century republicanism.
Slave Empire
Author: Padraic X. ScanlanPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472142322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.' The Economist The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood
Author: Emília Viotti da CostaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195106563
Category : Guyana
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This text explores the 1823 slave rebellion in Demerara (now Guyana) - one of the largest in history. The 60,000 black slaves who rose up against their British masters were brutally put down. The book looks at the conflict which gave the rebellion life and the forces which finally ended slavery.
Negro Comrades of the Crown
Author: Gerald HornePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081474463X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against the United States in battles big and small until the Civil War. Many African Americans viewed Britain, an early advocate of abolitionism and emancipator of its own slaves, as a powerful ally in their resistance to slavery in the Americas. This allegiance was far-reaching, from the Caribbean to outposts in North America to Canada. In turn, the British welcomed and actively recruited both fugitive and free African Americans, arming them and employing them in military engagements throughout the Atlantic World, as the British sought to maintain a foothold in the Americas following the Revolution. In this path-breaking book, Horne rewrites the history of slave resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United States. Painstakingly researched and full of revelations, Negro Comrades of the Crown is among the first book-length studies to highlight the Atlantic origins of the Civil War, and the active role played by African Americans within these external factors that led to it. Listen to a one hour special with Dr. Gerald Horne on the "Sojourner Truth" radio show.