American Uprising

Daniel Rasmussen

American Uprising
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Country
Published
17 January 2012
Pages
288
ISBN
9780061995224

American Uprising

Daniel Rasmussen

Breathtaking. [Rasmussen’s] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself–about how fiction can become fact, and how ‘history’ is sometimes nothing more than erasure. –Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Deeply researched, vividly written, and highly original. –Eric Foner

Historian Daniel Rasmussen reveals the long-forgotten history of America’s largest slave uprising, the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811. No North American slave uprising–not Gabriel Prosser, not Denmark Vesey, not Nat Turner–has rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or in terms of the number who were killed. Over 100 slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French planters, who then sought to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves’ revolutionary philosophy. With the Haitian Revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812 looming on the horizon, the revolt had epic consequences for America.

In an epic, illuminating narrative, Rasmussen offers new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery.

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