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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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