Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida by Larry Eug

Description: Rebels and Runaways by Larry Eugene Rivers 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders wills and probate records, ledgers, account books, court records, oral histories, and numerous newspaper accounts, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses the historical significance of Florida as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century and explains Floridas unique history of slave resistance and protest. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated from the Upper South to the Lower South to an untamed place such as Florida, and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Against a smoldering backdrop of violence, this study analyzes the various degrees of slave resistance--from the perspectives of both slave and master--and how they differed in various regions of antebellum Florida. In particular, Rivers demonstrates how the Atlantic world view of some enslaved blacks successfully aided their escape to freedom, a path that did not always lead North but sometimes farther South to the Bahama Islands and Caribbean. Identifying more commonly known slave rebellions such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel, and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection ever to occur in American history.Meticulously researched, Rebels and Runaways offers a detailed account of resistance, protest, and violence as enslaved blacks fought for freedom. Notes A comprehensive investigation of slave escape in antebellum Florida Author Biography Larry Eugene Rivers is president of Fort Valley State University in central Georgia and the author of Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. Review "A valuable--indeed indispensable--account that profoundly alters our understanding of slave protests and rebellion. Rivers offers perspectives that reach beyond Florida to embrace a regional and global context for a new understanding of freedom and unfreedom. Steeped in remarkable research, this is a must read book for anyone who studies slavery." Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Jackson "Most studies of antebellum slavery have either ignored or forgotten the bold actions of hundreds of enslaved Africans in Florida. Riverss poignant study makes a strong case that this thrilling human drama--played out over many generations--constitutes perhaps the largest slave rebellion in American history. After reading this splendid book, historians and others interested in Americas history will never look at slave resistance in the same way again." James M. Denham, author of A Rogues Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861 "A masterful, comprehensive, and captivating analysis of resistance and absconding in Florida. Rivers fluidly and movingly examines the complex and highly differentiated experiences of the enslaved in Florida, and their variable reactions to that condition. A must read for those interested in their sweeping and compelling story." Michael A. Gomez, author of Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora "A sweepingly impressive and admirably provocative study, Rebels and Runaways illuminates changes and meanings of slave resistance and armed rebellion. This important contribution offers a significantly sophisticated understanding of the complexities of resistance and rebellion to the tyranny of slavery." Darlene Clark Hine, co-editor of Black Europe and the African Diaspora and The Black Chicago Renaissance "In Rebels and Runaways, Larry Eugene Rivers gives readers a valuable companion to his earlier Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation (2000). In his newest book, Rivers provides added evidence for the central role of blacks in Floridas antebellum history... For those less familiar with Florida history, Rivers provides an excellent summary in his introduction which gives context to Floridas colonial, territorial, and early statehood periods within southern history, including the distinguishing characteristics of Florida as an Atlantic and Caribbean place. Throughout the book, he catalogs resistance of the enslaved, from smaller to larger acts with different degrees of risk to the rebels and runaways as well as degrees of threat to slaveholders and other whites." - Philip Smith, Texas A & M University, H-Florida Promotional 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. Prizes Commended for Florida Book Award (Florida Nonfiction) 2013 Long Description Larry Eugene Rivers recent University of Illinois Press book, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has earned the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society.A comprehensive investigation of slave escape in antebellum FloridaThis gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders wills and probate records, ledgers, account books, court records, oral histories, and numerous newspaper accounts, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses the historical significance of Florida as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century and explains Floridas unique history of slave resistance and protest. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated from the Upper South to the Lower South to an untamed place such as Florida, and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Against a smoldering backdrop of violence, this study analyzes the various degrees of slave resistance--from the perspectives of both slave and master--and how they differed in various regions of antebellum Florida. In particular, Rivers demonstrates how the Atlantic world view of some enslaved blacks successfully aided their escape to freedom, a path that did not always lead North but sometimes farther South to the Bahama Islands and Caribbean. Identifying more commonly known slave rebellions such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel, and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection ever to occur in American history. Meticulously researched, Rebels and Runaways offers a detailed account of resistance, protest, and violence as enslaved blacks fought for freedom. Review Text A valuable--indeed indispensable--account that profoundly alters our understanding of slave protests and rebellion. Rivers offers perspectives that reach beyond Florida to embrace a regional and global context for a new understanding of freedom and unfreedom. Steeped in remarkable research, this is a must read book for anyone who studies slavery.--Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln Most studies of antebellum slavery have either ignored or forgotten the bold actions of hundreds of enslaved Africans in Florida. Riverss poignant study makes a strong case that this thrilling human drama--played out over many generations--constitutes perhaps the largest slave rebellion in American history. After reading this splendid book, historians and others interested in Americas history will never look at slave resistance in the same way again.--James M. Denham, author of A Rogues Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861 A masterful, comprehensive, and captivating analysis of resistance and absconding in Florida. Rivers fluidly and movingly examines the complex and highly differentiated experiences of the enslaved in Florida, and their variable reactions to that condition. A must read for those interested in their sweeping and compelling story.--Michael A. Gomez, author of Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora A sweepingly impressive and admirably provocative study, Rebels and Runaways illuminates changes and meanings of slave resistance and armed rebellion. This important contribution offers a significantly sophisticated understanding of the complexities of resistance and rebellion to the tyranny of slavery.--Darlene Clark Hine, coeditor of Black Europe and the African Diaspora and The Black Chicago Renaissance Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida is a marvelous history of the complex ways enslaved blacks resisted slavery and how their determined efforts impacted the larger American experience. Rivers is to be commended for telling the complicated and compelling story of the fight enslaved blacks faced against terrorism over their bodies, minds, and souls in America.--Martin Luther King, III, President and Chief Executive Officer, The King Center, Atlanta, Georgia In this masterful undertaking, Larry E. Rivers fulfills a promise to illuminate the humanity of enslaved Floridians and argues convincingly that the Second Seminole War was a Negro, not an Indian War. Rebels and Runaways makes it impossible for scholars to ignore the level of discontent among slaves in Florida.--Wilma King, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, University of Missouri, Columbia Rebels and Runaways is the most important study of African American slave rebellions since the publication of Herbert Apthekers Negro Slave Revolts. Larry E. Rivers does for the history of slave resistance in the United States what C. L. R. Jamess Black Jacobins did for the Haitian Revolution. Rivers faithfully portrays the aspirations of enslaved Africans in Florida with sensitivity, and he opens a new chapter on the history of slave revolution and race war in the Americas. This book will have a profound impact on the field for generations to come.--Paul Ortiz, associate professor of history, University of Florida Rebels and Runaways is groundbreaking because, unlike other similar studies to date, it analytically addresses the Atlantic worldview held by some rebels and runaways and their impact on the multi-level patterns of slave resistance that developed over time in Florida. It focuses also on what these various levels of slave resistance meant to the overall expansion and development of the country as a whole. This is a solid and engaging study.--Freddie L. Parker, professor and chair of history, North Carolina Central University Review Quote "While discussing the nature of slave resistance in antebellum Florida, Rivers offers a convincing argument for unique conditions for rebellion in Florida. A fine analysis of slavery and resistance in Florida."--Journal of Social History Promotional "Headline" A comprehensive investigation of slave escape in antebellum Florida Details ISBN0252036913 Author Larry Eugene Rivers Short Title REBELS & RUNAWAYS Pages 264 Publisher University of Illinois Press Language English ISBN-10 0252036913 ISBN-13 9780252036910 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2012 Imprint University of Illinois Press Subtitle Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida Place of Publication Baltimore Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306.36209759 Publication Date 2012-06-22 Illustrations 32 black and white photographs, 7 tables UK Release Date 2012-06-22 NZ Release Date 2012-06-22 US Release Date 2012-06-22 Series New Black Studies Series Alternative 9780252079665 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2012-06-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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