
= Key Resource
General Surveys
Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. H31.C7 no. 501
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. A Social History of the American Negro. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1921.
Carroll, Joseph Cephas. Slave Insurrections in the United States: 1800-1865. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968. E447.C27 1968
Coffin, Joshua. An Account of some of the Principal Slave Insurrections…During the Last Two Centuries. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
Genovese, Eugene. “Slave Revolts in Hemispheric Perspective” in From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979: 1-50.
Genovese, Eugene. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. HT1048.G43
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts. New York: De Capo Press, 1998. E447.H53 1998
Slave Insurrections: Selected Documents. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1970. E447.S57 1970
Books about Slave Insurrections
Slave Insurrections: History and Sources
Books about Individual Slave Insurrections
Denmark Vesey
Gabriel Prosser
Nat Turner
New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741
Stono Rebellion
Slave Insurrections—New York
Slave Insurrections—South Carolina
Slave Insurrections—Virginia
Slave Insurrections—United States
Journal Articles and Secondary Sources
America History & Life
Black Studies Center
Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Humanities Index
JSTOR
Social Science Index
Other Databases and Indexes
Online and Electronic Resources
African-American History: Library of Congress American Memory
Africans in America: 1791-1831
Africans in America: Stono Rebellion
Africans in America: Vesey Conspiracy
Africans in America: Gabriel’s Conspiracy
Africans in America: Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Black Studies Center
Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Documenting the American South: The Confessions of Nat Turner
Library of Virginia: Gabriel’s Conspiracy
Library of Virginia: Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Making of America: University of Michigan Digital Library
Making of America: Cornell University Digital Library
Project Gutenberg
Slavery and The Courts: 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)
Horsmanden, Daniel. The New York conspiracy; or, a history of the negro plot,
with the journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New York in the
years 1741-2.
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