ABSTRACT
This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I: Rebels
chapter 1|18 pages
Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions
chapter 2|18 pages
An Upright Man
chapter 3|18 pages
Gabriel's Conspiracy and the Election of 1800
chapter 4|18 pages
Fly Across the River: The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802
part |2 pages
Part II: Reformers
chapter 6|14 pages
Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia
chapter 8|14 pages
An Update on Jacksonian Historiography: The Biographies
chapter 9|12 pages
Markets Without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism
part |2 pages
Part III: Revolutionaries