Slave Rebellions
Meanings of San Domingo:
Herman Melville,
"Benito Cereno"
William Wells Brown, selection from
St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and its Patriots
James Holly, selections from
A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race for Self-Government
and Civilized Progress
Harriet Beecher Stowe, selection from
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Meanings of the Nat Turner Rebellion:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
"Nat Turner's Insurrection"
Harriet Jacobs,
"Fear of Insurrection"
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