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Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts From "Travellers and Outlaws" Episodes in American History By Thomas Wentworth Higginson Includes; The Maroons of Jamaica The Maroons of Surinam Gabriel's Defeat Denmark Vesey Nat Turner's Insurrection SAMPLE The Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down from the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Balcarres from his diplomatic ease,--endangering, according to the official statement, "public credit," "civil rights," and "the prosperity, if not the very existence, of the country," until they were "persuaded to make peace" at last. They were the Circassians of the New World, but they were black, instead of white; and as the Circassians refused to be transferred from the Sultan to the Czar, so the Maroons refused to be transferred from Spanish dominion to English, and thus their revolt began. The difference is, that while the white mountaineers numbered four hundred thousand, and only defied Nicholas, the black mountaineers numbered less than two thousand, and defied Cromwell; and while the Circassians, after years of revolt, were at last subdued, the Maroons, on the other hand, who rebelled in 1655, were never conquered, but only made a compromise of allegiance, and exist as a separate race to-day.

Three times, at intervals of thirty years, did a wave of unutterable terror sweep across the Old Dominion, bringing thoughts of agony to every Virginian master, and of vague hope to every Virginian slave. Each time did one man's name become a spell of dismay and a symbol of deliverance. Each time did that name eclipse its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory: John Brown revived the story of Nat Turner, as in his day Nat Turned recalled the vaster schemes of Gabriel. -from "Gabriel's Defeat" Fired with an abolitionist's passion, these five true accounts of slave uprisings in Latin America and the United States are among the best writings we have of the struggle to end slavery in the Western hemisphere. Written by a dedicated antislavery crusader and first published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s and 1860s, these highly readable essays combine in-depth research with assured, absorbing prose to tell fascinating and important stories: of black warrior societies of the "Maroons," descendents of escaped slaves who lived in the jungles of the West Indies and South America; of Gabriel, whose dedication to throwing off the shackles of oppression turned him into a figure with an almost mystical aura; and Nat Turner's furious insurrection; and more. American author and civil-rights activist THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823, -1911) also wrote Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870) and Common Sense About Women (1881).

"Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson As an abolitionist, Higginson made his stance against slavery clear throughout his political career. Perhaps the best example of this dedication can be seen in this book. This text narrates the story of five separate slave rebellions, from the Maroons, who escaped the West Indies and South America, to the story of Gabriel Prosser, who recruited an army of 1000 to stand up to Virginian owners. The book even touches on Europe's history of slavery by discussing Denmark Vesey, an ex-slave who plotted to take vengeance on suppressors, and Nat Turner, who led a revolt throughout the USA.