The world that fear made : slave revolts and conspiracy scares in early America

The world that fear made : slave revolts and conspiracy scares in early America

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

328 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

306.362 S531 2020

(OCoLC)1117312928

"The conspiracy scare phenomenon emerged from a combination of enslaved people's traumatic experience of terror and enslavers' awareness of their culpability and exposure to the people whom they exploited. On at least ninety-six documented occasions before 1790, colonial officials in eastern North America and the British Caribbean believed that they discovered evidence of a "slave conspiracy"-a detailed plan for insurrection coordinated by a network of enslaved men-just in time to avert the uprising. Often they ended up convincing themselves that they regularly dodged ambushes at decoy fires and averted a world turned upside down .."--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-311) and index.
L2021M44

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