The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America
Publication Information
New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm
Contents
- Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland
- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade?
- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish
- Building a "white" pro-slavery wall: The construction of Georgia
- The Stono uprising: Will the Africans become masters and the Europeans slaves?
- Arson, murders, poisonings, shipboard insurrections: The fruits of the accelerating slave trade
- The biggest losers: Africans and the Seven Years' War
- From Havana to Newport, slavery transformed: Settlers rebel against London
- Abolition in London: Somerset's case and the North American aftermath
- The Counter-Revolution of 1776.