American Negro Slave Revolts (50th Anniversary Edition)
by Herbert Aptheker
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2021
List Price: $24.99
Format: Paperback, 434 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780717806058
Imprint: International Publishers
Publisher: International Publishers
Parent Company: International Publishers
Years ago, the controlling view held that the response of the slaves in the United States to their bondage “was one of passivity and docility.” That opinion, so decisive a part of the chauvinism afflicting the nation, is shown to be false in this book and in the material accumulated since its initial appearance has further substantiated this thesis; namely, that the African-American people, in slavery, forged a record of discontent and of resistance comparable to that marking the history of any other oppressed people.