Gobbets

• The Confession, trial and execution of Nat Turner
• The Southampton County Court Record

Questions

What caused slave rebellions? What was the white response to such events? Why were slave rebellions so few and far between? What were the consequences of revolts for slaves?

Core Reading

David F. Allmendinger, Nat Turner and the rising in Southampton County (library ebook) see esp part 11

• Michael P Johnson, ' Denmark Vesey and his co-conspirators' WMQ (2001)
• The making of a slave conspiracy: forum WMQ (2002)

E-resources

• Pearson, Edward, 'A countryside full of slaves: a reconsideration of the Stono rebellion and slave rebelliousness in the early 18thC South Carolina lowcountry' S&A 17.2 (1996), 22-30
• John Thornton, 'African dimensions of the Stono Rebellion' AHR (1991)
• Darold Wax, 'The great risque we run: the aftermath of slave rebellion at Stono, South Carolina, 1739-1745' JNH (1982)
• Mark Smith, Remembering Mary, Shaping Revolt: Reconsidering the Stono Rebellion JSH (2001)
• Crow, Jeffrey, 'Slave rebelliousness and social conflict in North Carolina 1775-1802' WMQ 37 (1980) 79-102 
• Egerton, Douglas R., 'Gabriel's Conspiracy and the Election of 1800', Journal of Southern History, 56 (1990), pp. 191-214.

Further reading

General

• Eugene Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
• Aptheker, Herbert, American Negro slave revolts
• Harvey Wish, 'American Slave Insurrections Before 1861' The Journal of Negro History, 22:3 (July 1937), pp. 299-320.
• Bruce, Dickson, Violence and culture in the antebellum South
• Mullin, Gerald, Flight and resistance in 18thC Virginia
• Herbert, Shapiro, 'Historiography and slave revolt and rebelliousness in the United States: a class approach', in In resistance: studies in African Caribbean and Afro-American history. Okihiro, Gary Y., [ed.], 133-142.
• Takaki, Ronald T., Iron cages: race and culture in nineteenth-century America.
• Gaspar, David Bondsmen and rebels
• Aptheker, Herbert, To be free, studies in American Negro History

Stono Rebellion (1739)

• Smith, Mark, ed., Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt

• Wood, Peter, Black Majority: negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

Gabriel Prosser (1800)

• Egerton, Douglas, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia slave conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
• Sidbury, James, Ploughshares into Swords: Race Rebellions and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1840
• Egerton, Douglas R., '"Fly across the River": The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802', in Darlene Clark Hine and Earnestine Jenkins (eds.), A Question of Manhood: A Reader in Black Men's History and Masculinity, Vol. 1, pp. 417-37.
• Takagi, Midori, Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865, pp. 61-70.

Denmark Vesey (1822)

• Pearson, Edward, Designs against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822 
• Robertson, David, Denmark Vesey

Nat Turner (1831)

• John H. Cromwell, ‘The Aftermath of Nat Turner’s Insurrection’, Journal of Negro History, 5:2 (April, 1920), pp. 208-234
• Lydia Plath, 'North Carolina and Nat Turner: Honour and Violence in a Slave Insurrection Scare' in Lydia Plath and Sergio Lussana (eds.), Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800-2000
• Kenneth S. Greenberg, Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory
• Stephen B. Oates, The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
• Scot French, The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory
• Duff, John B, The Nat Turner Rebellion
• Aptheker, Herbert, Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
• Peter H. Wood, 'Nat Turner: The Unknown Slave as Visionary Leader', in Leon Litwack and August Meier (eds.), Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, pp. 21-40.
• Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material