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THE GREAT RESISTANCE
The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
For more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas fought to gain their freedom. Acclaimed historian Carrie Gibson gathers their dramatic stories in one sweeping narrative that offers a message of inspiration in our own time.
This book reframes the history of abolition by focusing on the enslaved people who fought for their own freedom across centuries and continents.
Covering the period from the 1500's to 1888, Carrie weaves a sweeping, ground-up account of rebellion, and resistance. This radical retelling challenges long-held narratives and reveals how the fight against slavery shaped the foundations of democracy. By bringing the historical record into sharp focus, Gibson helps readers understand not just what happened, but why it still matters.
The Great Resistance begins with the earliest runaway slaves in the 1500s and ends with the end of slavery in Brazil in 1888. For too long the story of slave liberation has focused on the role of white allies - important though they were - and the larger imperial publics and governments who changed their minds about the status of the people they had earlier been happy to enslave.
The story of abolition is neither smooth nor linear, and to understand its jagged and often contradictory course it is necessary to look at a wider historical horizon, one that takes in not only Britain and the United States, but also Spanish America and Brazil. It is also a story intimately intertwined with political revolutions and the rise of the nation-state. There is no explaining the establishment of western democracy without the inclusion of the debates around slavery and abolition.
The Great Resistance offers the opportunity to think about freedom from the ground up at a time when post-slavery societies are facing serious questions about social and racial inequality.
Carrie Gibson is the author of two acclaimed works of history, Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, and El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America. She received a PhD from Cambridge University focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution and has worked as a journalist for the Guardian and contributed to other publications, as well as the BBC. She has done research across Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.
Covering the period from the 1500's to 1888, Carrie weaves a sweeping, ground-up account of rebellion, and resistance. This radical retelling challenges long-held narratives and reveals how the fight against slavery shaped the foundations of democracy. By bringing the historical record into sharp focus, Gibson helps readers understand not just what happened, but why it still matters.
The Great Resistance begins with the earliest runaway slaves in the 1500s and ends with the end of slavery in Brazil in 1888. For too long the story of slave liberation has focused on the role of white allies - important though they were - and the larger imperial publics and governments who changed their minds about the status of the people they had earlier been happy to enslave.
The story of abolition is neither smooth nor linear, and to understand its jagged and often contradictory course it is necessary to look at a wider historical horizon, one that takes in not only Britain and the United States, but also Spanish America and Brazil. It is also a story intimately intertwined with political revolutions and the rise of the nation-state. There is no explaining the establishment of western democracy without the inclusion of the debates around slavery and abolition.
The Great Resistance offers the opportunity to think about freedom from the ground up at a time when post-slavery societies are facing serious questions about social and racial inequality.
Carrie Gibson is the author of two acclaimed works of history, Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, and El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America. She received a PhD from Cambridge University focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution and has worked as a journalist for the Guardian and contributed to other publications, as well as the BBC. She has done research across Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.
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