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Rebels in arms, Black resistance and the fight for freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic, Justin Iverson

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-290) and index

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Justin Iverson

Early American places

Black resistance and the fight for freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic

"Enslaved Black people took up arms and fought in nearly every colonial conflict in early British North America. They fought in Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in 1676, in the Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars in the Carolinas and Georgia in the second decade of the eighteenth century, in Florida during the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1740, in Virginia and Pennsylvania in the French and Indian War from 1754-1763, and throughout North America and the Caribbean during the American Revolutionary War, among many others. Rebels in Arms takes a transatlantic approach that employs Black perspectives of six case studies to show how enslaved people and Maroons took up arms and participated as soldiers in conflicts traditionally thought to have been fought over colonial or imperial interests. Iverson argues that slave resistance in the British Atlantic and United States became increasingly militarized over time. Indeed, enslaved soldiers, Maroons, and plantation rebels together relied on military methods, institutions, and operations to achieve their goals. Military violence increasingly became their modus operandi and the militarization of slave resistance continued to rise throughout the eighteenth century and up until the Civil War. This book contributes to recent scholarship that reconceptualizes the participation of enslaved people in armed conflict in the Atlantic world"--, Provided by publisher

Enslaved rebels fight for freedom: Nathaniel Bacon's slave rebellion -- "Negroes plundered by the Indians from Carolina": Slave soldiers in the South Carolina Yamasee War 1715-1717 -- Liberty to slaves: Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian regiment, 1775-1776 -- Mutiny in the Caribbean: Saltwater slave soldiers in the Eighth West India regiment, Dominica, 1802 -- Fugitives on the front: Maroons in the Gulf Coast borderlands war, 1812-1823 -- Resistance militarized: slaves soldiers in the first South Carolina volunteers, 1862-1823

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Black resistance and the fight for freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic