If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

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If We Will have to Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of all the 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, every now and then, 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, made up our minds the difference between success and failure. Taylor also explores issues like aid from other ships, punishment of slave rebels, and remedy of sailors captured by the Africans. If We Will have to Die expands the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic in addition to the centuries. These uprisings, Taylor argues, in the end helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also served as the most important predecessors to the many revolts that occurred therefore on plantations during the Americas.

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