Black Rebellion - Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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_Spy_ (Sept. 18). It is also printed in Lundy's _Genius of Universal
Emancipation_ for September, 1822 (ii. 42), and reviewed in subsequent numbers (pp. 81, 131, 142).] 8. "The Liberty Bell, by Friends of Freedom. Boston: Anti-Slavery Bazaar. 1841. 12mo." [This contains an article on p. 158, entitled "Servile Insurrections," by Edmund Jackson, including brief personal reminiscences of the Charleston insurrection, during which he resided in that city.] [Of the above-named pamphlets, all now rare, Nos. 1 and 2 are in my own possession. Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, are in the Wendell Phillips collection of pamphlets in the Boston Public Library.] * * * * * NAT TURNER'S INSURRECTION 1. "The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late Insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray, in the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampton, with the certificate under seal of the court convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for this trial. Also an authentic account of the whole insurrection, with lists of the whites who were murdered, and of the negroes brought before the Court of Southampton, and there sentenced, etc." New York: printed and published by C. Brown, 211 Water Street, 1831. [This pamphlet was reprinted in the _Anglo-African Magazine_ (New York), December, 1859. Whether it is identical with the work said by the newspapers of the period to have been published at Baltimore, I have been |
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