Egerton Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-70160-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

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 Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I
1. Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions
2. The Tricolor in Black and White
3. An Upright Man: Gabriel's Virginia and the Path to Slave Rebellion
4. Gabriel's Conspiracry and the Election of 1800
5. Fly Across the River: The Easter Slave Conspiracry of 1802
6. Why They Did Not Preach Up This Thing: Denmark Vessey and Revolutionary Theology
7. Nat Turner in a Hemispheric Context
Section II
8. Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia
9. Rethinking the Origins of the American Colonization Society
10. An Update on Jacksonianian Historgraphy: The Biographies
11. Markets Without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism
12. Averting a Crisis: The Proslavery Critique of the American Colonization Society
Section III
13. Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings Family: A Matter of Blood
14. The Empire of Liberty Reconsidered

Über Autor(innen)

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