The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859 :
The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement
by Brian Gabrial
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1611176034 | 257 Pages | PDF | 17.4 MB
This volume examines news accounts of five major slave rebellions or conspiracies: Gabriel Prosser's 1800 Virginia slave conspiracy; the 1811 Louisiana slave revolt; Denmark Vesey's 1822 slave conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina; Nat Turner's 1831 Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt; and John Brown's 1859 Harper's Ferry raid.