The world that fear made : slave revolts and conspiracy scares in early America
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The world that fear made : slave revolts and conspiracy scares in early America
（Early American studies）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
A thought-provoking history of slaveholders' fear of the people they enslaved and its consequences
From the Stono Rebellion in 1739 to the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831, slave insurrections have been understood as emblematic rejections of enslavement, the most powerful and, perhaps, the only way for slaves to successfully challenge the brutal system they endured. In The World That Fear Made, Jason T. Sharples orients the mirror to those in power who were preoccupied with their exposure to insurrection. Because enslavers in British North America and the Caribbean methodically terrorized slaves and anticipated just vengeance, colonial officials consolidated their regime around the dread of rebellion. As Sharples shows through a comprehensive data set, colonial officials launched investigations into dubious rumors of planned revolts twice as often as actual slave uprisings occurred. In most of these cases, magistrates believed they had discovered plans for insurrection, coordinated by a network of enslaved men, just in time to avert the uprising. Their crackdowns, known as conspiracy scares, could last for weeks and involve hundreds of suspects. They sometimes brought the execution or banishment of dozens of slaves at a time, and loss and heartbreak many times over.
Mining archival records, Sharples shows how colonists from New York to Barbados tortured slaves to solicit confessions of baroque plots that were strikingly consistent across places and periods. Informants claimed that conspirators took direction from foreign agents; timed alleged rebellions for a holiday such as Easter; planned to set fires that would make it easier to ambush white people in the confusion; and coordinated the uprising with European or Native American invasion forces. Yet, as Sharples demonstrates, these scripted accounts rarely resembled what enslaved rebels actually did when they took up arms. Ultimately, he argues, conspiracy scares locked colonists and slaves into a cycle of terror that bound American society together through shared racial fear.
目次
Introduction. The Cup of Wrath Is Almost Full
Chapter 1. Making Sense of Strangers: The Invention of Anglo-American Slave Conspiracy
Chapter 2. Studying the Horizon: The Stories and Circumstances That Conjured Demons
Chapter 3. Seeking Truth Through Terror: Coercion and Survival Inside the Courtroom and the Jail
Chapter 4. The Risk of Relations: Community-Seeking and the Politics of Association
Chapter 5. The Accountants, the Opportunists, and the Rebels: Taking Chances in the Era of the Seven Years' War
Chapter 6. Governing in a World of Fear: Political Mobilization in the American Revolutionary Era
Epilogue. The Transforming Fires of the Haitian Revolution
Appendix
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
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