If we must die : shipboard insurrections in the era of the Atlantic slave trade / Eric Robert Taylor.

If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others rag...

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Main Author: Taylor, Eric Robert, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2006.
Series:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
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