slave insurrections

Riley, 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.

A collection of primary sources, from the colonial era to the Civil War, that document the struggle of free blacks, slaves, and other Americans to end slavery.

Provides an account of the slave rebellion of 1831 led by Virginia slave Nat Turner, and tells how the uprising was quelled by the militia and Turner later tried and hanged. Presented in graphic novel form.

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.

Traces slavery and five slave rebellions in America including the Amistad rebellion, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, and the Stono Rebellion.

Provides an account of the slave revolt along South Carolina's Stono River on September 9, 1739, the only notable rebellion to occur in British North America between the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the American Revolution.

Presents a history of the 1741 slave rebellion that nearly destroyed New York City, and describes the conviction of over one hundred men and women who were either burned at the stake, hanged, or imprisoned and the social and political climate of the 1730s and 1740s.

Describes the 1839 revolt led by Joseph Cinque aboard the illegal slave ship "Amistad" and the subsequent controversial trial in the U.S. that decided whether illegally captured slaves were free.