{"product_id":"the-world-that-fear-made-slave-revolts-and-conspiracy-scares-in-early-america-early-american-studies-9780812252194","title":"The World That Fear Made Slave Revolts and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thought-provoking history of slaveholders'' fear of the people they enslaved and its consequences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Stono Rebellion in 1739 to the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to Nat Turner''s Rebellion in 1831, slave insurrections have been understood as emblematic rejections of enslavement, the most powerful and, perhaps, the only way for slaves to successfully challenge the brutal system they endured. In \u003ci\u003eThe World That Fear Made\u003c\/i\u003e, Jason T. Sharples orients the mirror to those in power who were preoccupied with their exposure to insurrection. Because enslavers in British North America and the Caribbean methodically terrorized slaves and anticipated just vengeance, colonial officials consolidated their regime around the dread of rebellion. As Sharples shows through a comprehensive data set, colonial officials launched investigations into dubious rumors of planned revolts twice as often as actual slave uprisings occurred. In most of these cases, magistrates believed they ha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasterful...Sharples’s study assesses the intellectual, socioeconomic, and geopolitical causes of and preconditions for insurrection panics and factors dictating their scope, including the instrumentality of toxic print media...To say that this book makes extremely significant contributions to scholarship understates the case. * Early American Literature *\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking, original, and engaging, \u003ci\u003eThe World That Fear Made\u003c\/i\u003e is sweeping in its chronological scope and rich with details and stories that convey the lived experience of his subjects at key moments of crisis. It is a sophisticated and valuable corrective to the literature on slave rebellions. * Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. The Cup of Wrath Is Almost Full\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Making Sense of Strangers: The Invention of Anglo-American Slave Conspiracy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Studying the Horizon: The Stories and Circumstances That Conjured Demons\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Seeking Truth Through Terror: Coercion and Survival Inside the Courtroom and the Jail\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Risk of Relations: Community-Seeking and the Politics of Association\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Accountants, the Opportunists, and the Rebels: Taking Chances in the Era of the Seven Years' War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Governing in a World of Fear: Political Mobilization in the American Revolutionary Era\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Transforming Fires of the Haitian Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405743169879,"sku":"9780812252194","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812252194.jpg?v=1730493456","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-world-that-fear-made-slave-revolts-and-conspiracy-scares-in-early-america-early-american-studies-9780812252194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}