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2. Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Matthews,Gelien (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Baton Rouge: Louisianna State University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 197 p., Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831--32, identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery.
3. From rebellion to revolution: Afro-American slave revolts in the making of the modern world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Genovese,Eugene D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 173 p, Examines the slave revolts of the New World and places them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favored these revolts and the history of slave guerrilla warfare throughout the western hemisphere, Geonovese connects the ideology of the revolts to that of the great revolutionary movements of the late 18th century. Toussaint L'Ouverture's brilliant leadership of the successful slave revolt in Saint-Dominique constitutes, for Genovese, a turning point in the history of slave revolts, and, indeed, in the history of the human spirit. By claiming for his enslaved brothers and sisters the same right to human dignity that the French bourgeoisie claimed for itself, Toussiant began the process by which slave uprisings changed from secessionist rebellions to revolutionary demands for liberty, equality, and justice.