[PDF.03fg] Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy

Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy

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 | #526465 in Books |  Louisiana State University Press |  1996-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.94 x5.98l,1.51 | File type: PDF | 408 pages

 | Slavery & Emancipation | Civil War | Abolition | African American | Discrimination & Racism

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Conspiracy or a mistake?|By Marian|I read this book as part of a retirees' book club selection. It describes the background, and the little that actually is known, about an alleged slave revolt near Natchez, Mississippi, in the very early days of the Civil War. Prof. Jordan produces a tour de force of historiography, making extensive use of a wide variety of sources,both cont|From Library Journal|Historian Jordan turns his prize-winning skills from probing the nature of white attitudes toward blacks in early America to exploring the process, possibilities, and limits of historical inference from the fears and facts of black-white vio

In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the cen...

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