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Title: If We Must Die
Subtitle: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)
Author: Eric Robert Taylor
Narrator: Gerald Zimmerman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-20-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
If We Must Die examines nearly 500 shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determined the difference between success and failure.
Taylor also explores issues like aid from other ships, punishment of slave rebels, and treatment of sailors captured by the Africans. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries. These uprisings, Taylor argues, ultimately helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also served as crucial predecessors to the many revolts that occurred subsequently on plantations throughout the Americas.
The book is published by Louisiana State University Press.
Critic Reviews:
"This is an excellent book that should command the attention of any scholar of slavery." (The Americas)
"Well researched and ably written, Taylor's study fills an important void in the historiography of the transatlantic slave trade." (Journal of American History)
Members Reviews:
Well worth the read!
This book conveys the strength and nobility of the human spirit. It clearly defines the role that shipboard rebellions during the Atlantic slave trade played in the evolution of our society. I found the book thought provoking, meticulously researched, and well worth the read!
Great detail & accurate accounts
Great detail & accurate accounts. All supported. Graphic at times but only grappling the subject matter. Great book & extremely educational & informative
Great book for an African American studies student
I read this book for a book review for class and it was a very informative piece. I thought it was very interesting and really shed light on how terrifying and life altering African's experiences must have been when they were forced to embark on such a journey.
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Title: If We Must Die
Subtitle: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)
Author: Eric Robert Taylor
Narrator: Gerald Zimmerman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-20-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
If We Must Die examines nearly 500 shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determined the difference between success and failure.
Taylor also explores issues like aid from other ships, punishment of slave rebels, and treatment of sailors captured by the Africans. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries. These uprisings, Taylor argues, ultimately helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also served as crucial predecessors to the many revolts that occurred subsequently on plantations throughout the Americas.
The book is published by Louisiana State University Press.
Critic Reviews:
"This is an excellent book that should command the attention of any scholar of slavery." (The Americas)
"Well researched and ably written, Taylor's study fills an important void in the historiography of the transatlantic slave trade." (Journal of American History)
Members Reviews:
Well worth the read!
This book conveys the strength and nobility of the human spirit. It clearly defines the role that shipboard rebellions during the Atlantic slave trade played in the evolution of our society. I found the book thought provoking, meticulously researched, and well worth the read!
Great detail & accurate accounts
Great detail & accurate accounts. All supported. Graphic at times but only grappling the subject matter. Great book & extremely educational & informative
Great book for an African American studies student
I read this book for a book review for class and it was a very informative piece. I thought it was very interesting and really shed light on how terrifying and life altering African's experiences must have been when they were forced to embark on such a journey.