slave insurrections

"Describes the revolt of the Amistad and the affect it had on the slave trade"--.

The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth making in his own time and of movie making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system.

Explores the history of slave revolts.

Tensions between Manon Gaudet, a fiercely discontent Louisiana plantation wife, and her young slave Sarah who has been forced into a sexual relationship with Manon's husband, come to a head in the 1820s when a slave rebellion touches all their lives.

Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Gabriel," a courageous and intelligent blacksmith in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who roused thousands of African-American slaves like himself to rebel.

Explores the history of slavery in North America.

Spartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic.Political figures in Rome plot to aid or hinder him for their own purposes.

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.