Essays on Slave Rebellions

Before reviewing this book, it’ important to get some things out of the way regarding slavery and its importance as an institution and the impact that it has had on American history. Slavery more than any other single thing has shaped the history of the United States, it has created a divided country one where whites are superior to blacks and all of this was done in the name of creating wealth for one group on the backs of the other. There is a reason why stories like Nat Turner’s are so incredible is because they are the ...

African resistance to colonial powers has an extensive history that dates before the nineteenth century. The responses to colonial rule varied by location, religion, and resources that included both violent and nonviolent tactics. It is important to note that most rebellions were complex and strategically planned in the rising intolerance of colonial rule on the continent of Africa. Although Europeans aimed to divide and conquer, they did not always successfully change relationships among African communities who worked together in resistance. Nonetheless, foreign colonial powers were successful in recruiting tribes to assist in conquering other tribes who were in conflict. ...

For the purposes of my narrative, I wish to write about the impacts and influence of the French Revolution upon the Haitian Revolution. When the Haiti slave rebellions started in 1791, there was already a tense and eventful buildup of concerns which started with the French Revolution's success. Seeing how far that kind of action took the French proletariat, and its effects riling plantation owners of the time to further action, the French Revolution had significant impact in the lives and actions of the slaves who lived in Haiti.

This topic is important due to the rarity in which ...

Edward Wilmot Blyden was an illustrious pan-African intellectual, and he echoed one of the most common themes in black religion - Ethiopianism. Ethiopianism is the prophesied redemption of Africa by black Americans. Although in his later years he became a passionate defender of Islam, Blyden had the implicit belief that the spiritual journey of Africans in the diaspora was similar to that of the Jews. He also hoped that one day African Americans would return to their motherland to restore her to her former glory. He argued that the significance of Zionism and how it related to the Jewish nation ...