{"product_id":"american-uprising-the-untold-story-of-americas-largest-slave-revolt-isbn-9780061995217","title":"American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt","description":"“Breathtaking. [Rasmussen’s] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself—about how fiction can become fact, and how ‘history’ is sometimes nothing more than erasure.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Deeply researched, vividly written, and highly original.” —Eric Foner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorian Daniel Rasmussen reveals the long-forgotten history of America’s largest slave uprising, the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811. In an epic, illuminating narrative, Rasmussen offers new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery.\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous slave rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Uprising\u003c\/em\u003e is the riveting and long-neglected story of this elaborate plot, the rebel army's dramatic march on the city, and its shocking conclusion. No North American slave uprising—not Gabriel Prosser's, not Denmark Vesey's, not Nat Turner's—has rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or the number who were killed. More than one hundred slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French planters, who then sought to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves' revolutionary philosophy. With the Haitian revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812 looming on the horizon, the revolt had epic consequences for America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough groundbreaking original research, Daniel Rasmussen offers a window into the young, expansionist country, illuminating the early history of New Orleans and providing new insight into the path to the Civil War and the slave revolutionaries who fought and died for justice and the hope of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“New Orleans has been the scene of many dark adventures, but none so shocking as the slave rebellion of 1811. Daniel Rasmussen has unearthed a stunning tale of freedom and repression and told it in gripping fashion.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvan Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rasmussen has illuminated a remarkable event long obscured by the years.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Charleston Post and Courier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An important book. . .This tale deserves to be much better known, as does the larger story of slave resistance. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Uprising\u003c\/i\u003e represents a signal achievement.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rasmussen provides a provocative, reader-friendly, though well-researched, account of the largest slave revolt in American history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Monroe News Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rasmussen adds fresh research to the story of the 1811 revolt, ushering it into the context of slavery, the history of the South, and the ugly brutality our nation built itself on. . . . Great reading for anyone interested in history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Portland Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAmerican Uprising\u003c\/i\u003e offers a detailed, fascinating glimpse into a previously ignored part of history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Daniel Rasmussen has performed an important service for American history. . .\u003ci\u003eAmerican Uprising\u003c\/i\u003e challenges much of what we think we know about American slavery.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe St. Louis American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A deeply researched, vividly written, and highly original account of the largest slave revolt in the nineteenth-century United States. . . . Thanks to Rasmussen, we now have the full story of this dramatic moment in the struggle for freedom in this country.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric Foner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A crisp, confident writer, Rasmussen tells this story with verve.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rasmussen’s narrative has a breadth and sweep reminiscent of  \u003ci\u003eThe Black Jacobins\u003c\/i\u003e, C.L.R James’s classic study of the succesful slave insurrection that led to Haitian independence in 1804. Unlike that rebellion, the Louisiana uprising was brutally suppressed; this important book ensures that it will no longer be forgotten.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book would be a major accomplishment for any historian; for an historian at such an early stage in his career, it is breathtaking. Rasmussen disinters the suppressed history of a slave revolt that was, in fact, the largest of its kind in US history. His scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself—about how fiction can become fact, and how ‘history’ is sometimes nothing more than erasure.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An incredible true story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A chilling and suspenseful account [of] the culmination of a signal episode in the history of American race relations.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Goodheart, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887980900581,"sku":"NP9780061995217","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061995217.jpg?v=1730227872","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/american-uprising-the-untold-story-of-americas-largest-slave-revolt-isbn-9780061995217","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}