Search Results for: slave rebellion

Free Blacks in Accomack County during the Antebellum Period

March 27, 2024March 25, 2024 Sabrina Watson #BooksArchivesMonuments, archives, Virginia

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” During the Antebellum period,

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A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Alexis Cathcart abolition, Black women

On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned

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Why did Nat Turner “confess”?

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Patrick Rael black protest, Resistance, South

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

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The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery

The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of

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Resistance Discourse of Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Anna Stibbe #BlackAtlantics, abolition, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” At the “National Negro Convention” in Buffalo of 1843, Black

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