Fugitive Movements : Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World / James O'Neil Spady and Manisha Sinha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spady, James O'Neil, 1968- author.

Sinha, Manisha, author.

Series:

Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.

Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Commemorating the Denmark Vesey affair and Black radical antislavery in the Atlantic world

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion. Among the leaders was a free Black carpenter named Denmark Vesey. After a brief investigation and what many considered a dubious trial, Vesey and 35 others were convicted of attempted insurrection and hanged. To this day, activists, politicians, writers, and scholars have questioned and debated the historical significance of the conspiracy, its commemoration, and the integrity of the archival records left behind. James O'Neil Spady has collected essays by 14 outstanding scholars, who reframe the Vesey affair as part of the broader development of Black Radical antislavery movements in the Atlantic World. Essays focus on Vesey and several other rebellion events, including the forcible rescue of African Americans being trafficked within the United States. Manisha Sinha, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, provides the foreword"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Manisha Sinha

Fugitive Direct Action. Denmark Vesey, South Carolina, and Haiti: Borne, Bound, and Battered by a Common Wind / Bernard E. Powers Jr. ; Denmark Vesey and the 1822 Charleston Antislavery Uprising: New Themes and New Methods / James O'Neil Spady ; Writing Reparative Histories of Connection: The 1831 Tortola Slave Conspiracy in the Atlantic World / Anita Rupprecht and Cathy Bergin ; Black Southwestern Pennsylvanians and the Politics of Free Soil in the Northern Borderlands / Lucien Holness ; Fugitivity and Citizenship in the Southeastern Coastal United States: Representing Black Resistance, 1862-1902 / Wendy Gonaver

Fugitive Memory. The Silent Jean St. Maló: A Counterhistory of Slavery / William D. Jones ; Slavery, Resistance, and Memory in the Lowcountry: The Commemoration of the Stono Rebellion / Shawn Halifax and Terri L. Snyder ; Arrows of Power: The Builsa Feok Festival of Slave Resistance and Abolition in Ghana / Samuel Ntewusu ; Revisiting Denmark Vesey's Church / Robert L. Paquette ; "To See What He Could Do for His Fellow Creatures": Enslaved Women, Families, and Survivors in North American Slave Conspiracies / Douglas R. Egerton ; Freedom Fighter or Attila the Hun? How Black and White Charlestonians Remembered Denmark Vesey, 1822-2014 / Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781643362656

1643362658

OCLC:

1291875476