Stono - Documenting And Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt

Informationen zum Autor Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the 1997 Avery O. Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians. His other books include Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, and two edited collections, The Old South and Hearing History: A Reader. Klappentext Pearson, and Smith himself reveal how historians have used some of the same documents to construct radically different interpretations of the revolt's causes, meaning, and effects. Zusammenfassung Among the most important slave revolts in colonial America! the Stono Rebellion also ranks as South Carolina's largest slave insurrection and one of the bloodiest uprisings in American history. This study introduces readers to the documents needed to understand both the revolt and the discussion among scholars about the legacy of the insurrection.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark M. (EDT) Smith
• Mitarbeit: Mark M Smith (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Univ of south carolina press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2005
• EAN: 9781570036057
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-605-7
• Seiten: 134
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges