Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion: Greenwood Milestones in African American History [2 Volumes]

by Junius P. Rodriguez

Slaves fought against their subhuman treatment in myriad ways, from passive resistance to armed insurrection. They defined their sense of self and shared humanity through an unquenchable desire to seek freedom from their oppressors. The variety of methods used by slaves to resist the institution that sought to subjugate them indicates the immense fiction that they were lesser creatures animated only by brutish instinct. The many acts of slave resistance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313332711
• ISBN13: 9780313332715
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 4.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 7.3" x 10.4"