Riley, a Soul Catcher, works with her teacher Bodhi to help Rebecca, the daughter of a former plantation owner who, furious about being murdered during a 1733 slave revolt, is keeping those who died with her from crossing over.
Examines ways slaves, free blacks, and whites, fought against the institution of slavery and presents historically significant slave revolts or rebellions that occurred in the Americas.
Provides an account of the slave revolt along South Carolina's Stono River on September 9, 1739, the only notable rebellion to occur in British North America between the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the American Revolution.
liberty. slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan
Lepore, Jill
2005
Presents a history of the 1741 slave rebellion that nearly destroyed New York City, and describes the conviction of over one hundred men and women who were either burned at the stake, hanged, or imprisoned and the social and political climate of the 1730s and 1740s.
A history of the 1839 uprising of African captives aboard the slave ship Amistad, telling of their three-year imprisonment in the United States and their eventual acquittal by the Supreme Court.
Tells the story of the slave revolt aboard the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839, which resulted in the slaves and their leader Cinque being brought before the United States Supreme Court to debate the issue of human rights.
"Explores the mutiny aboard the Amistad, including the slave revolt onboard, the trial of the slaves in U.S. courts, the appeal to the Supreme Court, and the inspiration for the movie, Amistad"--Provided by publisher.
Phoebe, a slave in the Philipse household in colonial New York, must decide on the right course of action when her friend Cuffee is implicated in a reputed slave uprising.