Slave revolts - AAIHS

Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African