The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America

by Jason T Sharples

A thought-provoking history of slaveholders' fear of the people they enslaved and its consequences

From the Stono Rebellion in 1739 to the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831, slave insurrections have been understood as emblematic rejections of enslavement, the most powerful and, perhaps, the only way for slaves to successfully challenge the brutal system they endured. In The World That Fear Made, Jason...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252195
• ISBN13: 9780812252194
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"