slave insurrections

Brief biography profiling the life and achievements of Nat Turner, a slave and prophet who led a revolt against slave owners in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

Presents a graphic adaptation of the story of the revolt onboard the slave ship Amistad in 1839, detailing the path of the ship from Africa to the United States, the trial of the Africans that was brought to the Supreme Court, and the aftermath.

Presents a brief history of the slave ship Amistad that held hundreds of kidnapped Africans, and how they fought for their freedom in the Supreme Court of the United States.

"The slave revolt on the ship Amistad in 1839 was a crucial event in the early abolitionist movement in the United States. When the vessel arrived in America, a fierce debate began about whether the Africans were free or enslaved and whether they should be allowed to return to Africa. The argument became a legal battle that eventually ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court, with former president John Quincy Adams representing the Africans. This remarkable story and its repercussions are presented, ... replete with images to complement the narrative and a timeline that summarizes key events"--Provided by publisher.

This book tells the story of Nathaniel Nat Turner, a black slave who led a rebellion in the American South in the summer of 1831.

"The slave revolt on the ship Amistad in 1839 was a crucial event in the early abolitionist movement in the United States. When the vessel arrived in America, a fierce debate began about whether the Africans were free or enslaved and whether they should be allowed to return to Africa. The argument became a legal battle that eventually ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court, with former president John Quincy Adams representing the Africans. This remarkable story and its repercussions are presented in this beautifully designed volume, replete with images to complement the narrative and a timeline that summarizes key events.".

"Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor."--Provided by publisher.

Presents the story of Sengbe Pieh, a West African man of the Mende tribe who, in 1839 was imprisoned on the Portuguese slave ship "Tecora" on its way to Cuba; and tells of the rebellion aboard ship and the trial of Sengbe and fellow captives.

Riley, dead at age twelve and now a Soul Catcher, works with her teacher Bodhi to help Rebecca, the daughter of a former plantation owner who, furious about being murdered during a 1733 slave revolt, is keeping those who died with her from crossing over.

"[Explores] the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on the political and economic history of the United States."--Provided by publisher.