Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.

Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of Political and Social History at Le Moyne College.

Section I 1. Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions 2. The Tricolor in Black and White 3. An Upright Man: Gabriel's Virginia and the Path to Slave Rebellion 4. Gabriel's Conspiracry and the Election of 1800 5. Fly Across the River: The Easter Slave Conspiracry of 1802 6. Why They Did Not Preach Up This Thing: Denmark Vessey and Revolutionary Theology 7. Nat Turner in a Hemispheric Context Section II 8. Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia 9. Rethinking the Origins of the American Colonization Society 10. An Update on Jacksonianian Historgraphy: The Biographies 11. Markets Without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism 12. Averting a Crisis: The Proslavery Critique of the American Colonization Society Section III 13. Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings Family: A Matter of Blood 14. The Empire of Liberty Reconsidered