Herbert Aptheker- AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVE REVOLTS / 40th Anniversary Edition (1987)
On Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel and others.
Fifth Edition. Second Printing. 1987. Yellow wrappers. 415pp. Light wear to wrappers, minor corner bend lower front cover. No writing or ownership markings. NEAR FINE.
Years ago, the controlling view held that the response of the slaves in the United States to their bondage "was one of passivity and docility". That opinion, so decisive a part of the chauvinism afflicting the nation, is shown to be false in this book and in the material accumulated since its initial appearance has further substantiated this thesis; namely, that the African-American people, in slavery, forged a record of discontent and of resistance comparable to that marking the history of any other oppressed people.
