Black rebellion - From “Travellers and outlaws” E-Book

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

• Herausgeber: GIANLUCA
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This book contains five chapters from Higginson’s book “Travellers and Outlaws”. The collection presented here is commonly referred to as ‘Black Rebellion: five slave revolts’. Chapters include: The Maroons of Jamaica; The Maroons of Surinam; Gabriel’s Defeat; Denmark Vesey; and, Nat Turner’s Insurrection.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA

THE MAROONS OF SURINAM

GABRIEL’S DEFEAT

DENMARK VESEY

NAT TURNER’S INSURRECTION

Table of Contents

THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA

THE MAROONS OF SURINAM

GABRIEL’S DEFEAT

DENMARK VESEY

NAT TURNER’S INSURRECTION

BLACK REBELLION - FROM “TRAVELLERS AND OUTLAWS”

BY

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

First digital edition 2018 by Gianluca Ruffini

THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA

The Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down from the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Balcarres from his diplomatic ease, endangering, according to the official statement, “public credit”, “civil rights”, and “the prosperity, if not the very existence, of the country”, until they were “persuaded to make peace” at last. They were the Circassians of the New World, but they were black, instead of white; and as the Circassians refused to be transferred from the Sultan to the Czar, so the Maroons refused to be transferred from Spanish dominion to English, and thus their revolt began. The difference is, that while the white mountaineers numbered four hundred thousand, and only defied Nicholas, the black mountaineers numbered less than two thousand, and defied Cromwell; and while the Circassians, after years of revolt, were at last subdued, the Maroons, on the other hand, who rebelled in 1655, were never conquered, but only made a compromise of allegiance, and exist as a separate race today.