Slavery, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Americas
A Historiographical Scenario on the Theses of Genovese and Others
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19002487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A J Williams-Myers (SUNY New Paltz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 381-400 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002193479602600401 |
| OpenAlex | W1976749778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 50 |
To acknowledge the 200th anniversry of the bourgeois-democratic French Revolution is to be mindful not only of its worldwide impact on emergent or would-be emergent nation-states in the 18th-centuryWestern world but also of its equally chain-shattering tripartite cry of liberte, egalite, and fraternite on Africans held in bondage by France and other established, emergent, and would-be emergent Western slaveholding states. In a similar vein, we are reminded of the 1983 gathering of scholars at Stanford University to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of Aptheker's seminal book, American Negro Slave Revolts. During that conference, scholars examined papers built around Aptheker's 1943 position as expressed in the book that discontent and rebelliousness were not only exceedingly common, but, indeed, characteristic of American Negro slaves (Aptheker, 1987 [1938], p. 374). In 1976, the author moved beyond his 1943 position to emphatically posit that resistance, not acquiescence, is the core of history (Craton, 1982, p. 11). Resistance, not acquiescence, characterized the key ingredient that brought on the Haitian Revolution of 1791. Coming in the wake of the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution was profoundly
Acquiescence · Bourgeoisie · Democracy · Economic history · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
The sociology of slavery
The arrogance of race
Black majority
White supremacy
The Black woman cross-culturally
Flight and rebellion
Slave and citizen
Time on the cross
American Negro slavery
From rebellion to revolution
Women in Africa and the African diaspora
The Age of the Democratic Revolution
Roll, Jordan, roll
The slave community
The Peculiar Institution
Political Economy of Slavery
The Black Jacobins
Neither Black nor White
Slaves of the White God
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies during Slavery
The Highest Stage of White Supremacy
American Negro Slave Revolts
The Political Economy of Slavery
Resistance to Slavery
From Homicide to Slavery
White Supremacy
The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South
In Resistance
Maroon Societies
American Negro Slave Revolts
Pan-Africanism
Florida Slaves and Free Negroes in the Seminole War, 1835-1842
The Atlantic Slave Trade. A Census
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Slavery and the triangle of emancipation
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |