Slave Rebellions

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• 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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