The Insolent Slave

by William E. Wiethoff

While scholars of American history have written extensively about slave insurgency in the form of rebellion, William E. Wiethoff considers a more subtle form of resistance that caused considerable consternation among slaveholders--that of insolence. Though he finds insolence to have been a rarely and carefully used rhetoric of resistance, Wiethoff also finds the practice to have been one to which slaveowners were especially sensitive and which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570034141
• ISBN13: 9781570034145
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"