If We Must Die

Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By: Eric Robert Taylor

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If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determined the difference between success and failure. Taylor also explores issues like aid from other ships, punishment of slave rebels, and treatment of sailors captured by the Africans. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave 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 served as crucial predecessors to the many revolts that occurred subsequently on plantations throughout the Americas.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas African History Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies Specific Events & Topics in History Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Illustrations and Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Enslavement, Detention, and the Middle Passage	p. 15
Conditions Favorable for Revolt	p. 41
Precautions against Revolt	p. 67
Revolt	p. 85
Unsuccessful Revolts	p. 104
Successful Revolts	p. 119
Shipboard Revolts in the Americas: A New Wave	p. 139
Conclusion	p. 164
Appendix: Chronology of Shipboard Slave Revolts, 1509 - 1865	p. 179
Notes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 259
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