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9780415931229

Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415931229

  • ISBN10:

    0415931223

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-09-06
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.

Author Biography

Douglas R. Egerton is professor of history at Le Moyne College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part I: Rebels 1(90)
Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions
3(18)
An Upright Man
21(18)
Gabriel's Conspiracy and the Election of 1800
39(18)
Fly Across the River: The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802
57(18)
``Why They Did Not Preach Up This Thing'': Denmark Vesey and Revolutionary Theology
75(16)
Part II: Reformers 91(70)
Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia
93(14)
``Its Origin is Not a Little Curious'': A New Look at the American Colonization Society
107(14)
An Update on Jacksonian Historiography: The Biographies
121(14)
Markets Without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism
135(12)
Averting a Crisis: The Proslavery Critique of the American Colonization Society
147(14)
Part III: Revolutionaries 161(30)
The Tricolor in Black and White: The French Revolution in Jefferson's Virginia
163(12)
A Matter of Blood: Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings Family
175(16)
Notes 191(56)
Index 247

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