The River Road / sectional, racial, and cultural conflict in antebellum America /
edited by John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold.
- 1st ed.
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1999.
- 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
The scenes which are acted in St. Domingo: the legacy of revolutionary violence in early national Virginia / Douglas Egerton -- Rebellion on the river road: the ideology and influence of Louisiana's German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811 / Junius Rodriguez -- Romanticizing slave revolt: Madison Washington, the Creole Mutiny, and abolitionist celebration of violent means / Stanley Harrold -- Active vigilance is the price of liberty: Black self-defense against fugitive slave recapture and kidnapping of free Blacks / Carol Wilson -- Fighting with breath, not blows: Frederick Douglass and antislavery violence / James Cook -- Joshua Giddings, antislavery violence, and congressional politics of honor / James Brewer Stewart -- Comeouterism and antislavery violence in Ohio's Western Reserve / Chris Padgett -- The ladies of Lawrence are arming!: the gendered nature of sectional violence
1572330597 (alk. paper)
99006121
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Slave insurrections--History--United States--19th century.
Abolitionists--History--United States--19th century.
Violence--History--United States--19th century.
E449 / .A637 1999
813.4 / KER
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
The scenes which are acted in St. Domingo: the legacy of revolutionary violence in early national Virginia / Douglas Egerton -- Rebellion on the river road: the ideology and influence of Louisiana's German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811 / Junius Rodriguez -- Romanticizing slave revolt: Madison Washington, the Creole Mutiny, and abolitionist celebration of violent means / Stanley Harrold -- Active vigilance is the price of liberty: Black self-defense against fugitive slave recapture and kidnapping of free Blacks / Carol Wilson -- Fighting with breath, not blows: Frederick Douglass and antislavery violence / James Cook -- Joshua Giddings, antislavery violence, and congressional politics of honor / James Brewer Stewart -- Comeouterism and antislavery violence in Ohio's Western Reserve / Chris Padgett -- The ladies of Lawrence are arming!: the gendered nature of sectional violence
1572330597 (alk. paper)
99006121
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Slave insurrections--History--United States--19th century.
Abolitionists--History--United States--19th century.
Violence--History--United States--19th century.
E449 / .A637 1999
813.4 / KER