Rasmussen Daniel
Rasmussen Daniel - American Uprising The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt - Paperback
Rasmussen Daniel - American Uprising The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt - Paperback
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Description: New York Times Bestseller Breathtaking. Rasmussens scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance but it also tells us something about history itselfabout how fiction can become fact and how history is sometimes nothing more than erasure. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Deeply researched vividly written and highly original. Eric Foner historian and bestselling author of Reconstruction Historian Daniel Rasmussen reveals the long - forgotten history of Americas largest slave uprising the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811. No North American slave uprisingnot Gabriel Prosser not Denmark Vesey not Nat Turnerhas rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or in terms of the number who were killed. Over 100 slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French planters who then sought to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves revolutionary philosophy. With the Haitian Revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812 looming on the horizon the revolt had epic consequences for America. In an epic illuminating narrative Rasmussen offers new insight into American expansionism the path to Civil War and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery.
Title: American Uprising The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Author(s): Rasmussen Daniel
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061995224
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/17/2012
Description: New York Times Bestseller Breathtaking. Rasmussens scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance but it also tells us something about history itselfabout how fiction can become fact and how history is sometimes nothing more than erasure. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Deeply researched vividly written and highly original. Eric Foner historian and bestselling author of Reconstruction Historian Daniel Rasmussen reveals the long - forgotten history of Americas largest slave uprising the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811. No North American slave uprisingnot Gabriel Prosser not Denmark Vesey not Nat Turnerhas rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or in terms of the number who were killed. Over 100 slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French planters who then sought to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves revolutionary philosophy. With the Haitian Revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812 looming on the horizon the revolt had epic consequences for America. In an epic illuminating narrative Rasmussen offers new insight into American expansionism the path to Civil War and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery.
Title: American Uprising The Untold Story Of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Author(s): Rasmussen Daniel
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061995224
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/17/2012
