Herbert Aptheker 1943 428p 5 x 8 A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Includes the story of Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey Gabriel and others. $8-15 Other works involving slave revolts, nat turner, slavery, armed struggle, race, escape, sabotage, excarceration, the south, 1800s

Rebels on the Plantation J.H. Franklin & L. Schweninger     1999     480p     6 x 9 From John Hope Franklin, America’s foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled … Continue reading Runaway Slaves →

Henri Charrière     1969     576p     5 x 8 “We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to … Continue reading Papillion →

Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century Peter Linebaugh     1991     524p     6 x 9 Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it … Continue reading The London Hanged →

  Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!     Fredy Perlman   1983   296p   5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor.      Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel   Dorothy Allison   1992   320p   6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading →