slave revolts

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  3/9/2023
  

  Portraying the Women Leaders of Slave Rebellions

  Rebecca Hall, author of a new graphic history, says women warriors and rebels have been portrayed as exceptions proving the rule instead of as freedom fighters. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/12/2022
  

  The Slave Dwelling Project Pushes History of Slave Rebellions to the Public

  Joseph McGill Jr. links the history of the Stono Rebellion and subsequent slave uprisings to the current effort to suppress so-called Critical Race Theory in schools. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/30/2022
  

  The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey's Rebellion

  by Karen Cook Bell

  Though no enslaved women were indicted as co-conspirators in Charleston, they maintained a culture of silence that enabled future subversive and freedom-seeking actions. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  12/2/2021
  

  Marking the 500th Anniversary of the Americas' First Slave Revolt

  The legacy of the rebellion, which is considered the first recorded revolt in the Americas, reverberated throughout the region. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  8/3/2021
  

  Historian Rebecca Hall's New Graphic Novel Highlights Women's Role in Slave Revolts

  With illustrator Hugo Martinez, Rebecca Hall's debut graphic novel examines women's roles in slave rebellions during the Middle Passage and in the Americas. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/23/2021
  

  Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution (Review Essay)

  by Steven Hahn

  Three books support a reconceptualization of the Age of Revolution from below, accounting for the way that struggles for emancipation shaped the world that emerged. 

• SOURCE: The Root
  4-22-13
  

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Did African-American Slaves Rebel?

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter. One of the most pernicious allegations made against the African-American people was that our slave ancestors were either exceptionally "docile" or "content and loyal," thus explaining their purported failure to rebel extensively. Some even compare enslaved Americans to their brothers and sisters in Brazil, Cuba, Suriname and Haiti, the last of whom defeated the most powerful army in the world, Napoleon's army, becoming the first slaves in history to successfully strike a blow for their own freedom.