Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93122-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: Crosscurrents in African American History

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Egerton, Douglas R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I1. Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions2. The Tricolor in Black and White3. An Upright Man: Gabriel's Virginia and the Path to Slave Rebellion4. Gabriel's Conspiracry and the Election of 18005. Fly Across the River: The Easter Slave Conspiracry of 18026. Why They Did Not Preach Up This Thing: Denmark Vessey and Revolutionary Theology7. Nat Turner in a Hemispheric ContextSection II8. Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia9. Rethinking the Origins of the American Colonization Society10. An Update on Jacksonianian Historgraphy: The Biographies11. Markets Without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism12. Averting a Crisis: The Proslavery Critique of the American Colonization SocietySection III13. Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings Family: A Matter of Blood14. The Empire of Liberty Reconsidered

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of Political and Social History at Le Moyne College.