Download or read book Sabotage, Sedition, and Sundry Acts of Rebellion written by David Aretha and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 9, 1739, a group of enslaved black people revolted near Charleston, South Carolina. Jemmy and his co-conspirators busted into a gun store, killed the shopkeepers, and carted off the firearms. By late afternoon, the band of freedom seekers had grown to one hundred. They invaded homes and businesses, killed more than twenty white people, and marched down the road shouting "Liberty!" In the decades following the Civil War, American history books overlooked or downplayed acts of rebellion by the millions of African and American-born black people who had been forced into slavery. They were described as "docile" and accepting of their lot in life. In recent generations, however, scholars have found evidence of hundreds of brazen acts of resistance. Throughout the slavery era, northern and southern whites constantly feared a rebellion-that the people they called slaves would poison them, slit their throats, or stage a mass revolt. Southern lawmakers passed increasingly strict laws to minimize the possibility of an insurrection, but the threat was ever-present. Blacks resisted in numerous ways-by stealing, running away, or simply disobeying orders. In certain cases, a lust for revenge or a craving for freedom overtook a group of black plantation workers, and they conspired to carry out a large-scale uprising. This book explores all forms of resistance, from cockeyed glances to the infamous Nat Turner revolts in which dozens of whites and, in retaliation, more than two hundred blacks were killed. This is a story of sabotage, sedition, and sundry acts of rebellion that added up to a revolution. Book jacket.