Rebels and Runaways - Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida

Larry Eugene Rivers is president of Fort Valley State University in central Georgia and the author of Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation.

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Summary

Argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection in American history.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Eugene Rivers
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780252079665
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07966-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New Black Studies; New Black Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous