slave revolts

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Shimmer

2011
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.

Slave rebellions

2006
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.

Cry liberty

the great Stono River slave rebellion of 1739
2010
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.

New York burning

liberty. slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan
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.

Amistad

a long road to freedom
2001
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.

The Creole mutiny

a tale of revolt aboard a slave ship
2003
Chronicles the events surrounding the slave revolt on the Creole transport ship on November 7, 1841.

Amistad

the slave uprising aboard the Spanish schooner
1997
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.

The Amistad mutiny

from the court case to the movie
2009
"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.

The color of fire

a novel
2005
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.

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