The Great Resistance The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
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Erscheinungsdatum
06.01.2026
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Grove AtlanticSeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9780802165510
For more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Mexico and Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramatic stories are gathered in one sweeping narrative that offers a message of inspiration in our own time.
Among the emancipators are the millions whose stories will never be known. They lived the struggle. They were the great resistance. Thus does acclaimed historian Carrie Gibson conclude her magisterial chronicle of four centuries of effort by enslaved people in the western hemisphere to gain their freedom. Freedom is an idea, she writes, and the actions of the thousands who fought to escape slavery made clear that freedom had to be for everyone, otherwise it was a lie.
The horrific enslavement by Europeans of twelve million Africans taken to the Americas has been widely written about, and important individual slave revolts have been recorded; but Gibson tells a larger story, portraying the multitude of freedom struggles across the entire hemispherefrom North America to the Caribbean to Brazilas one long-running quest for freedom. From the first African revolt in 1521 on the island of Hispaniola, to the 18th-century Maroon Wars on Jamaica and the revolution that gave Haiti its independence, and thousands of smaller acts of defiance in between, Gibson vividly chronicles the continuum of resistance that eventually ended the slave trade and, with Brazil's decision in 1888, the institution of slavery itself.
This was the most diverse ongoing insurrection the world has ever known, and the way it was responded to shaped every nation in the Americas in meaningful ways. If scholars were to emphasize the efforts of the enslaved more than the condition of slavery, historian Vincent Brown has written, we might at least tell richer stories about how the endeavors of the weakest and most abject have at times reshaped the world. With its deep scholarship and rich narrative, The Great Resistance is a major contribution to the literature around slavery and freedom and, in our time, a tribute to the persistence of the human spirit to overcome even the darkest of circumstances.
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