Download If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) AudioBook Free
If We Must Die examines practically 500 shipboard rebellions that took place over the course of the whole slave trade, straight challenging the prevailing thesis that such level of resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were smashed quickly, others raged on all night, days and nights, or weeks, and, sometimes, the Africans captured the vessel and delivered themselves to flexibility. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor shows that certain factors like geographic location, the engagement of women and children, and the timing of an shipboard revolt, motivated the difference between success and failing. Taylor also explores issues like the help of other ships, punishment of slave rebels, and treatment of sailors captured by the Africans. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave level of resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries. These uprisings, Taylor argues, ultimately helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also dished up as important predecessors to the countless revolts that took place eventually on plantations throughout the Americas. The reserve is posted by Louisiana Express University Press.
