Image: Discovery of Nat Turner October 30, 1831, A Popular History of the United States (1882), p. 321. Public domain image.
New York Slave Revolt of 1712
See these entries from Black Past, Wikipedia, PBS, The Zinn Education Project, and The Smithsonian Magazine.
Stono Revolt (1739)
See these entries from Black Past, Wikipedia, PBS, and the Library of Congress.
New York Slave Conspiracy (1741)
See these entries from Black Past, Wikipedia, and The Gilder Lehrman Institute.
Gabriel’s Revolt (1800)
Books
Douglas R. Egerton: Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802.
Articles
Gillian Brockell: Gabriel’s revolt: In 1800, he was savvy, armed and determined to end slavery in Virginia’s capital. But on the day of the bold slave insurrection, disaster struck.
See also these entries from Black Past, Wikipedia, and PBS.
Denmark Vesey’s Slave Revolt: 1822
Books
Douglas R. Egerton: He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey.
Douglas R. Egerton & Robert L. Paquette (editors): The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History.
Articles
Douglas R. Egerton: Abolitionist or Terrorist?
See also these entries from Black Past, Wikipedia, and PBS.
Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt: 1831
Documentary
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property.
Books
David F. Allmendinger Jr.: Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County.
Patrick H. Breen: The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt.
Kenneth S. Greenberg: Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory.
Articles
Patrick Rael:
Gregory S. Schneider: The birthplace of American slavery debated abolishing it after Nat Turner’s bloody revolt.
See also these entries at Black Past, Wikipedia, and PBS.
Battle of Lake Okeechobee (1837)
See these entries from Black Past and Wikipedia.
Okeechobee Battlefield Historic State Park.
Christiana Resistance: 1851
See these entries from Black Past, Friends Journal, and Wikipedia, as well as this entry on Henry Davis Green.
Slave Revolts Throughout the Americas: Books
Vincent Brown: Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.
Laurent Dubois & John D. Garrigus: Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents.
Marjoleine Kars: Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast.
Jason T. Sharples: The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America.
Tom Zoellner: Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire.
Slave Revolts Throughout the Americas: Articles
Yesenia Barragan: Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas.
Black Past:
- Tacky’s War (1760-1761).
- Haitian Revolution (1791-1804).
- The Tryal Slave Ship Rebellion, 1805.
- The Amistad Mutiny, 1839.
- Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803).
- Samuel Sharpe (ca. 1780-1832).
Bram Hoonhout: The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery.
Marjoleine Kars: Dodging Rebellion: Politics and Gender in the Berbice Slave Uprising of 1763.
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative.
Jason T. Sharples: The World That Fear Made: A New Book on Slave Revolts and Conspiracies in Early America.
Adam Thomas: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.
Tom Zoellner: ‘Island on Fire’: A New Book about the Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire.
The Haitian Revolution: Books
Laurent Dubois: Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.
James Alexander Dun: Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America.
Anne Eller: We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom.
C.L.R. James: The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.
The Haitian Revolution: Articles
Ibram X. Kendi: Dangerous Neighbors: A New Book on the Haitian Revolution’s Impact on Early America.
John Garrison Marks: Free Blacks and the Haitian Revolution in Cartagena and Charleston.
Sandy Placido: Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century.