slave rebellion

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

The leader of a would-be South Carolina slave rebellion was hanged 200 years ago. A new account is a must-read.

Denmark Vesey expressed the Bible’s anti-slavery messages.

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-nominated "Tacky’s Revolt."

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast.

Against the backdrop of another conflict over slavery in 1861, Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote an in-depth narrative of Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt in Charleston, SC.

Rumors that enslaved Black New Yorkers were planning a revolt spread across Manhattan even more quickly than the fires for which they were being blamed.

While documented revolts of enslaved persons in New Jersey aren’t abundant, some examples speak to the spirit of resistance among African people held captive.

Comparing the results of two Louisiana slave rebellions 20 years apart and what that meant for the continuation of slavery within the Deep South.

Extending that compassion today could reverse past wrongs.

Georgia enacted the Citizen's Arrest Law in an attempt to maintain control of enslaved people.

The common denominator? Fear of Black liberation.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.

What the Confederacy actually was: a proslavery anti-democratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal.

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.

On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.