Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Maps
- PART I Slave Rebellion, 1736
- 1. “No People Were Ever Rescued from a Danger More Imminent”
- 2. “Our Island Is in Such a Miserable Condition”
- 3. “Not… Bound… by the Ordinary Rules of Law”
- PART II Slaves and Slave Society
- 4. African Recruitment
- 5. From the Negroes’ Labor
- 6. For the Better Government of Slaves
- 7. Regulating Runaways and Freedmen
- PART III Patterns of Slave Resistance
- 8. “To Make Themselves Masters of the Contry”
- 9. “However They May Disguise It, They Hate Their Masters”
- 10. “A Conspiracy Deeply Laid & Extended Wide”
- 11. “Daring Spirits to Lead Them On”
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
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