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The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars
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by Y. N. Kly
Sales Rank: 801583
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Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages
Published by: Clarity Press July 10, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0932863507
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0932863508
Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 6.4 ounces
Book Description
There remain profound misconceptions about Slavery still largely accepted by American historians: ú That there was no collective resistance to the enslavement system by captured Africans ú That self-liberated Africans mostly fled northward to freedom, rather than southward to the free territories of Georgia and Florida ú That the Seminole Wars were simply another set of Indian wars, rather than wars which marked the collective African resistance to the enslavement system ú That the records of the period (official documents, newspaper records, etc.) were accurate descriptions of fact, rather than censored materials produced in wartime, with a view to enhancing public support and calming public fears. Why has scholarship since this period failed to challenge the historical records, and shed the light of contemporary political science on their interpretation? Its a truism that history is shaped by the victors, yet it is rare to find a situation of such near-erasure from contemporary awareness. Disguised as Indian wars, the Seminole Wars were the captured Africans? anti-colonial war of liberation waged from the free territories of the South.
About The Author
Y. N. Kly is Professor Emeritus, School of Human Justice, University of Regina, and a former consultant to government and a wide range of ethnic groups on minority issues. Author of five books and numerous articles, he won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in 1990 and 1995 for International Law and the Black Minority in the US, and for A Popular Guide to Minority Rights. He chairs an international NGO in consultative status at the UN.
Reader Reviews
I was thrilled to see that Peter Wood's valuable article, "'Twas a Negro Who Taught Them", was available in this collection. I bought the book solely for that reason. But the article has been so poorly edited that it is virtually unreadable in places. There are small typos in many places: 'in' is given as 'inn', and 'with' is presented as 'wiht', for example. But eight pages into the article, an entire line of text has been deleted. Two pages later, a line of text has been printed twice. For shame on the editor of this piece and the publisher of this volume!
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