American Negro Slave Revolts – New Edition

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First published in 1943 by Columbia University Press, Herbert Aptheker’s American Negro Slave Revolts redefined the study of slave resistance, challenging decades of racism within academia and popular culture.

Along with W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction, it corrected long held preconceptions, providing scholars and activists with example after example—painstakingly documented—of slave resistance to white oppression. Written during a time when most authors argued that slaves benefited from white benevolence, American Negro Slave Revolts proved that Blacks—free and slave—repeatedly acted on their own behalf to break the chains of slavery.

A seminal text during the 1960s campus student and Black Power movements, American Negro Slave Revolts also helped to Pioneer Black Studies.

This New & Expanded Edition includes a new Foreword by Willie Mack, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Missouri. Additionally, Tony Pecinovsky provides supplementary material from the pages of the Daily Worker, the Daily World, and the People’s World—enabling readers to dive deeper into Aptheker’s contributions as a foremost historian.