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Slavery: Slave Insurrections and Conspiracies

Primary Sources

Kennedy, Lionel & Thomas Parker. An Official Report of the Trials of Sundry Negros, charged with the attempt to raise insurrection. 1822
Report on the Denmark Vesey conspiracy.
Turner, Nat. The Confessions of Nat Turner. the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia. 2014 (ebook)
Horsmanden, Daniel., A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by Some White People, in Conjuction with Negro and Other Slaves... 1744.
Details of a conspiracy in New York City in 1741 as told by the presiding judge.
Slave Insurrections: selected documents. 1970
Holland, Edwin C.A refutation of the calumnies circulated against the Southern & Western States : respecting the institution and existence of slavery among them. To which is added, a minute and particular account of the actual state and condition of their

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