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Type: Article
Author: Scherr, Arthur.
Title: GOVERNOR JAMES MONROE
AND THE SOUTHAMPTON SLAVE
RESISTANCE OF 1799.
Citation: Historian 1999 61(3): 557-578.
ISSN: 0018-2370
Abstract: Assesses James Monroe's views on
slavery as
governor of Virginia from 1799 to 1802,
emphasizing Monroe's moderate view of
slaveholding during a slave uprising in
Southampton County in October 1799. Monroe took
pains to see that the charged rebels received
proper legal treatment, demonstrating a marked
concern for their civil rights. He conducted an
exhaustive investigation into the incident and
saw to it the slaves involved received a fair
trial. Although he opposed abolition, Monroe
supported African colonization proposals and
gradual, compensated emancipation. When the
occasion warranted, as in Gabriel Prosser's
rebellion of 1800, Monroe took an unpopular
position in supporting fair trials and
attempting to explain and justify slave actions.
In the final analysis, Monroe believed in the
eventual demise of slavery.
Documentation: Based primarily on records published in Calendar
of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts
from January 1, 1799, to December 31, 1807, vol.
9 edited by H. W. Flournoy, other primary
sources, and secondary sources; 74 notes.
Abstracter: A. Hoffman
Language: English
Period: 1799-1802.
Subject: Virginia (Southampton County).
Slave Revolts.
Antislavery Sentiments.
Monroe, James.
Slavery.
Entry: 37:6365
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Type: Article
Author: Tang, Joyce.
Title: ENSLAVED AFRICAN
REBELLIONS IN VIRGINIA.
Citation: Journal of Black Studies 1997 27(5):
598-614.
ISSN: 0021-9347
Abstract: Surveys evidence of slave uprisings
in Virginia
between 1700 and 1865, examines the conditions
that fostered rebellion, and enumerates the
measures whites took to control the black
population in these years. The author focuses on
the Gabriel Prosser rebellion of 1800 and the
Nat Turner rebellion of 1831. While these
revolts led to increased control and
surveillance of the black population, slave
rebellions continued.
Language: English
Period: 1700-1865.
Subject: Virginia.
Slave Revolts.
Entry: 35:15938
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Type: Article
Author: Drescher, Seymour.
Title: SERVILE INSURRECTION
AND JOHN BROWN'S BODY IN
EUROPE.
Citation: Journal of American History 1993
80(2): 499-524.
ISSN: 0021-8723
Abstract: Explores the impact in Europe of
the 1859 Harpers
Ferry raid and the subsequent hanging of John
Brown. European journalists initially reacted to
the raid with horror, the prospect of a general
"servile insurrection" recalling the
depredations of the Haitian revolution and other
slave rebellions, but soon focused on the
fortitude and then the martyrdom of Brown.
French author Victor Hugo's powerful engraving
of Brown's hanging was widely circulated in
Britain and America, and his plea that Brown's
life be spared was reprinted prominently by the
American Anti-Slavery Society. The British
antislavery movement, committed to
nonrevolutionary change, condemned the violence
and fanaticism and conspicuously failed to
organize a collective appeal for Brown's life.
Although widely acknowledged, Brown's martyrdom
soon faded from memory.
Documentation: Based on contemporary newspapers and periodicals
and secondary sources; reproduction, 65 notes.
Abstracter: R. V. Labaree/S
Language: English
Period: 1859-60.
Subject: Harpers Ferry raid.
Europe.
Brown, John.
Antislavery Sentiments.
Entry: 32:1638
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Type: Article
Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
Title: GABRIEL'S CONSPIRACY
AND THE ELECTION OF 1800.
Citation: Journal of Southern History 1990
56(2): 191-214.
ISSN: 0022-4642
Abstract: Gabriel Prosser's slave rebellion,
when placed in
the context of Richmond, Virginia, and the
election of 1800, was based on a reasonable,
coherent plan. As an urban skilled craftsman,
Gabriel was more interested in "the ideology of
artisan republicanism," and in opposing the
oppressive rule of merchants, than in leading a
millenarian revolt. With tensions so high over
the election of 1800, the time seemed especially
ripe for a revolt. He believed, incorrectly,
that both white artisans and rural slaves would
join his cause. Governor James Monroe suppressed
potentially damaging information about the
revolt long enough for Republicans to win the
election of 1800.
Documentation: Based on court records, newspapers, private
correspondence, and secondary sources; 63 notes.
Abstracter: R. W. Brown, Jr.
Language: English
Period: 1800.
Subject: Virginia (Richmond area).
Slave Revolts.
Prosser, Gabriel.
Artisans.
Entry: 29:7019
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Type: Article
Author: Morris, Christopher.
Title: AN EVENT IN COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATION: THE
MISSISSIPPI SLAVE INSURRECTION SCARE OF 1835.
Citation: Journal of Social History 1988 22(1):
93-111.
ISSN: 0022-4529
Abstract: Six whites and more than a dozen
blacks died in
mob lynchings within 10 days after the rumor of
a planned slave insurrection spread through
Madison County, Mississippi. This hanging spree,
called "the most violent case of mob retribution
in the history of the old South," may have been
caused by collective efforts to reassert old
values, but it also arose out of a more complex
system of community organization. Madison was
newly settled with little county-wide
integration of institutions or social networks.
While the impetus for the first killings came
from the efforts of a newly arrived planter to
establish his leadership, the governing
circumstance was the locals' ability to find
villains to blame in outlying communities who
were outside the protective reach of the local
network of personal relationships.
Documentation: 2 tables, 40 notes.
Abstracter: C. M. Hough
Language: English
Period: 1835.
Subject: Social organization.
Slave Revolts.
Mississippi (Madison County).
Lynching.
Local Government.
Entry: 26:14212
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Type: Article
Author: Silverman, Jason H.
Title: RACE, RUMOR, AND
REBELLION.
Citation: Reviews in American History 1987
15(1): 66-71.
Abstract: Reviews Thomas J. Davis's A Rumor
of Revolt: The
"Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York (1985),
a narrative, nonanalytical history of the events
surrounding the burning of several officials'
and elites' homes in New York City in 1741, and
the fear by many that the city's black
population was responsible.
Language: English
Period: 1739-44.
Subject: Slave revolts (review article).
New York City.
Fire.
Davis, Thomas J.
Entry: 25A:5396
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Type: Article
Author: Mutersbaugh, Bert M.
Title: THE BACKGROUND OF
GABRIEL'S INSURRECTION.
Citation: Journal of Negro History 1983 68(2):
209-211.
Abstract: The 1800 Virginian slave conspiracy
known as
Gabriel's Insurrection has been well-documented.
There is, however, recently discovered evidence
from the Henrico County court records indicating
that in 1799 Gabriel, the slave who led the
revolt, and his brother Solomon were involved in
a fight with Absalom Johnson, a local planter.
Prints partial trial records that provide the
background to Gabriel's plans for a subsequent
slave revolt. The revolt may have been inspired,
in part, by Gabriel's hatred for Johnson.
Documentation: Based on the Henrico County Order Book No. 9 and
published primary sources; 5 notes.
Abstracter: S
Language: English
Period: 1799-1800.
Subject: Virginia.
Trials.
Slave Revolts.
Johnson, Absalom.
Gabriel.
Entry: 25A:1976
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Type: Article
Author: Heuman, Gad.
Title: AMERICA AND THE AMERICAS:
THE RESPONSE OF THE
SLAVES.
Citation: History Today [Great Britain] 1984
34(Apr): 31-35.
Abstract: In the Americas, slaves attempted
to maintain
their spiritual independence within an
oppressive system by resorting to passive
resistance, rebellion, or flight.
Language: English
Period: 17c-19c.
Subject: Slave Revolts.
Fugitive slaves.
Attitudes.
Americas (North and South).
Entry: 22A:4740
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Type: Article
Author: Wax, Darold D.
Title: "THE GREAT RISQUE
WE RUN": THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVE
REBELLION AT STONO, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1739-1745.
Citation: Journal of Negro History 1982 67(2):
136-147.
Abstract: The slave uprising at Stono, near
Charleston,
South Carolina, on 9 September 1739 represented
a significant escalation in black resistance to
slavery. Over 20 whites and 40 slaves were
killed. As long as the black population exceeded
the white, the potential for violence existed.
Programs to provide more security were adopted,
including a revision of the slave codes, but no
new measure eliminated the risk of another slave
rebellion.
Documentation: 63 notes.
Abstracter: A. G. Belles
Language: English
Period: 1739-45.
Subject: South Carolina (Stono).
Slave Revolts.
Race Relations.
Entry: 21A:238
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Type: Article
Author: Knight, Franklin W.
Title: EUGENE GENOVESE ON
AMERICAN SLAVE REVOLTS.
Citation: Reviews in American History 1980
8(3): 309-311.
Abstract: Review essay of Eugene D. Genovese's
From
Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave
Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State U. Pr., 1979); ca. 17th
century-1850's.
Language: English
Period: ca 17c-1859.
Subject: Slave Revolts.
Genovese, Eugene D. (review article).
Entry: 18A:3972
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Type: Article
Author: Watson, Alan D.
Title: IMPULSE TOWARD INDEPENDENCE:
RESISTANCE AND
REBELLION AMONG NORTH CAROLINA SLAVES,
1750-1775.
Citation: Journal of Negro History 1978 63(4):
317-328.
Abstract: Slaves in North Carolina continually
protested
their state of involuntary servitude. At the
outbreak of the American Revolution many of the
slaves were as eager for their freedom as white
North Carolinians who prepared to seek
liberation from British tyranny. Based upon
public records in the North Carolina State
Archives; 53 notes.
Abstracter: N. G. Sapper
Language: English
Period: 1750-1775.
Subject: Slave Revolts.
North Carolina.
American Revolution.
Entry: 18A:857
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Type: Article
Author: Carter, Dan T.
Title: THE ANATOMY OF FEAR:
THE CHRISTMAS DAY
INSURRECTION SCARE OF 1865.
Citation: Journal of Southern History 1976
42(3): 345-364.
Abstract: The absence of slave rebellions
after Nat Turner's
in 1831 scarcely dampened the continued Southern
fear of black revolt. Even in the early
emancipation years, fear prevailed that the
freed blacks would seek land and property via
violence. Whites' use of the uprising scare to
rearm themselves and disarm the freed blacks
prompted many northerners to adopt a
conspiratorial view when no uprising occurred.
The lack of evidence for a conspiracy in 1865
does not disprove that this and other alleged
plots existed; however, more solid proof is
needed than the evidence extracted from
torture-induced, alleged black confessions.
Postwar uprising scares served as instruments of
white unity, a warning of potential black
insubordination, and as a shield against
"outsiders."
Abstracter: T. Schoonover
Language: English
Period: 1865.
Subject: South.
Slave revolts.
Fear.
Entry: 15A:1069
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Type: Article
Author: Wade, Richard C.
Title: THE VESEY PLOT: A
RECONSIDERATION.
Citation: Journal of Southern History 1964
30(2): 143-161.
Abstract: Studies the reported plot said to
have been led by
Denmark Vesey for a slave rebellion in
Charleston, South Carolina, during the summer of
1822, for which 35 Negroes were hanged and 37
transported out of the state. Deplores
historians' acceptance of the official version
of the plot and the judicial proceedings. The
author utilizes documentary comparisons of two
manuscript confessions with the published
versions, criticism by Governor Thomas Bennett
and his brother-in-law, Judge William Johnson,
and letters by Johnson's daughter, Ana Hayes
Johnson, as well as a consideration of social
conditions in the city at the time, to argue
that the plot existed largely in the minds of
city officials, a frightened white community,
and the special judges, who included Robert Y.
Hayne. Documented.
Abstracter: S. E. Humphreys
Language: English
Period: 1822.
Subject: Vesey, Denmark.
South Carolina (Charleston).
South Carolina.
Slavery.
Revolutions, Revolutionary Movements, and
Rebellions.
Johnson, William.
Johnson, Ana H.
Courts.
Bennett, Thomas.
Entry: 1:2696
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Type: Article
Author: Miles, Edwin A.
Title: THE MISSISSIPPI SLAVE
INSURRECTION SCARE OF 1835.
Citation: Journal of Negro History 1957 42(1):
48-60.
Abstract: The slave insurrection scare in
Madison County,
Mississippi, partially explains the Southern
opposition to the abolitionists in 1835 and the
following years. "Although it seems likely that
in this instance the fears of southern whites
had been grossly exaggerated, their reaction was
just as vehement as if the dangers had been
real."
Abstracter: W. E. Wight
Language: English
Period: 1835-40's.
Subject: Slavery.
Mississippi.
Mississippi (Madison County).
Entry: 0:2153
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Type: Article
Author: Geggus, David.
Title: SLAVE SOCIETY IN
THE SUGAR PLANTATION ZONES OF
SAINT DOMINGUE AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1791-93.
Citation: Slavery & Abolition [Great Britain]
1999 20(2):
31-46.
ISSN: 0144-039X
Abstract: Examines statistically regional
differences in
sugar plantation size and value, fertility of
females, workload, nutritional status, degree of
creolization, and ethnic composition of the
slave population of Saint Domingue to better
understand slave behavior in the revolution of
1791-93. Heavier workloads in the north may
possibly have been a causative factor in
rebellion; other regional differences show no
clear relationship to the making of revolution.
Documentation: Based on plantation inventories, newspaper
advertisements, and other primary and secondary
sources; map, 5 tables, 45 notes.
Abstracter: R. A. Keller
Language: English
Period: 1770-95.
Subject: Regionalism.
Haiti.
Revolution.
Slavery.
Plantations.
Entry: HAA51I3
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Type: Article
Author: Williams-Myers, A. J.
Title: SLAVERY, REBELLION,
AND REVOLUTION IN THE
AMERICAS: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SCENARIO ON THE
THESES OF GENOVESE AND OTHERS.
Citation: Journal of Black Studies 1996 26(4):
381-400.
ISSN: 0021-9347
Abstract: Reviews the historiography of slave
revolts in the
Americas and the evolution of the debate on the
centrality of resistance in the history of the
slave economy and validates the point made by
Eugene Genovese in his From Rebellion to
Revolution (1979) that the Haitian revolution
marked a turning point when the conditions of
resistance, both intrinsic and external, had
matured to make that movement a truly national
and truly revolutionary one.
Documentation: Secondary sources; ref.
Abstracter: B. S. Shlevin
Language: English
Period: 16c-19c.
1943-91.
Subject: Genovese, Eugene.
Haiti.
Historiography.
Slave Revolts.
Entry: 48A:1417
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Type: Article
Author: Cox, Edward L.
Title: FEDON'S REBELLION
1795-96: CAUSES AND
CONSEQUENCES.
Citation: Journal of Negro History 1982 67(1):
7-19.
Abstract: Julien Fedon, a free mulatto of
French extraction,
initiated a black rebellion on the French
Caribbean island territory of Grenada in March
1795. Fedon, linking his actions to the French
Revolution, fought off government troops for 16
months before being defeated. The revolt, caused
by racial discrimination, resulted in increased
hardships for all blacks, slave or non-slave on
the island.
Abstracter: A. G. Belles
Language: English
Period: 1795-96.
Subject: Rebellions.
Grenada.
Fedon, Julien.
Blacks.
Entry: 35A:1307
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Type: Article
Author: Geggus, David.
Title: THE BRITISH ARMY
AND THE SLAVE REVOLT: SAINT
DOMINGUE IN THE 1790S.
Citation: History Today [Great Britain] 1982
32(July):
35-39.
Abstract: Account of the slave revolt of 1791
on the French
Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) as a
result of gross inequality between whites and
the African slaves. Focuses on the experience of
the British troops that went to Saint-Domingue
to quell the rebellion and seize the island for
Britain. Almost all of the 20,000 British
soldiers died there, due largely to disease.
Language: English
Period: 1791-97.
Subject: Slaves.
Rebellions.
Haiti.
Great Britain.
Armies.
Entry: 35A:1311
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Type: Article
Author: Gaspar, David B.
Title: THE ANTIGUA SLAVE
CONSPIRACY of 1736: A CASE STUDY
OF THE ORIGINS OF COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE.
Citation: William and Mary Quarterly 1978
35(2): 308-323.
Abstract: Examines the origins of the slave
plot to blow up
the governor and gentry at the annual ball
celebrating the coronation of George II in
October 1736 that was intended to trigger a
slave revolt. The plot was discovered, 88 slaves
were executed, and 47 were banished. Absentee
ownership contributed to the small population of
whites on Antigua, and lax enforcement of slave
laws was also a cause of the rebellion. The
author also considers economic factors, plans
for the revolt, and evidence of the conspiracy.
Compares the two slave factions, the Coromantees
and Creoles, noting their means of recruitment.
Based on trial records; table, 68 notes.
Abstracter: H. M. Ward
Language: English
Period: 1700-40.
Subject: Antigua.
Rebellions.
Slaves.
Entry: 25A:1146
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Type: Article
Author: Short, K. R. M.
Title: JAMAICAN CHRISTIAN
MISSIONS AND THE GREAT SLAVE
REBELLION OF 1831-2.
Citation: Journal of Ecclesiastical History
[Great Britain]
1976 27(1): 57-72.
Abstract: Describes the activities of British
Evangelicals
in the aftermath of the Jamaican slave
rebellion. The main tasks were 1) to vindicate
the missionaries from charges of fomenting the
rebellion; 2) to convince the public of the
evils of slavery, and 3) to raise funds to
rebuild 15 chapels which were destroyed. The
author traces the efforts of Baptist and
Wesleyan activists, their appeal to the nation,
and the pressure they brought on the government,
particularly in reference to the Abolition of
Slavery Act of 1833. Based on Colonial Office
Papers in the Public Record Office and
manuscripts and printed records originating with
the Wesleyan and Baptist Missionary Societies;
27 notes.
Abstracter: P. H. Hardacre
Language: English
Period: 1831-34.
Subject: Jamaica.
Missions and Missionaries.
Protestantism.
Rebellions.
Slavery.
Entry: 24A:1073
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Type: Article
Author: Jones, Wilbur D.
Title: LORD MULGRAVE'S ADMINISTRATION
IN JAMAICA,
1832-1833.
Citation: Journal of Negro History 1963 48(1):
44-56.
Abstract: Discusses the administration of
the Earl of
Mulgrave as governor of Jamaica during 1832 and
1833. Mulgrave arrived shortly after a serious
slave rebellion and his concern for emancipating
the island's slaves preempted much of his time.
He also faced opposition from the local assembly
which he ordered dissolved. Mulgrave believed
that abolition could come about only through
Parliamentary intervention and should be gradual
and with compensation. The plan later used by
the Colonial Office was virtually the same as
Mulgrave's though there is no way of determining
his influence on the decision.
Documentation: Based on 13 letters from Mulgrave to colonial
secretary Lord Goderich.
Abstracter: L. Gara
Language: English
Period: 1832-33
Subject: Jamaica.
Normanby, lst Marquis of.
Slavery, Slave Trade and Anti-Slavery Movements.
West Indies.
Entry: 9:3200
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