American Uprising
The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt

I read this because a friend foisted it upon me, so my enthusiasm was not high. It's to the book's credit that I zoomed through it and found it pretty gripping. The story of the short-lived and unsuccessful uprising of New Orleans slaves in 1811, this was interesting and vividly-written (although it......more

There is so little information about what happened during that revolt - it has been lost to history -- that the author could really only put together a few chapters around the uprising itself. He couldn't give details about the people who led the revolt, why they did it, how they made it work, what......more

I could not have been happier to finish this book. I bought this book with the anticipation that it would be a well written historical narrative that lead me through the events of an uprising that has not been widely told in most of our history books. What I found was an author who not only was inex......more

Now, uh, let's see. *checks notes* Alright, ahem, so I finished this book a week ago and uh . . . *mumbles incoherently while adjusting shirt collar* So, yeah, I finished it. I thought the writing was good. *peers up at the class nervously as the teacher gestures to continue* So the writing was good, but......more

Acclaimed historian of colonial America, Jack P. Green, has called the South “a negative example of what America had to overcome before it could finally realize its true self.” For two centuries, the struggle to 'integrate' the South into a more 'progressive' and 'mainstream' American narrative has......more