The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature

Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner's are central to
speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of black spiritual
struggles. Using fiction, history, and oral poetry drawn from the United States, the
Caribbean, and Africa, this book analyzes how writers reinterpret episodes of
historical slave rebellion to conceptualize their understanding of an ideal
"master-less" future. The texts range from Frederick Douglass's The Heroic
Slave and Alejo Carpentier's The Kin...