Chiapas: la razón ardiente. Ensayo sobre la rebelión del mundo encantado = Chiapas: the burning reason. Essay on the rebellion of the enchanted world
By Adolfo Gilly (NHC Fellow, 1991–92; 1996–97)
Rebellions
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
By Emília Viotti da Costa (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) The night of August 17, 1823 saw the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana), in which nearly twelve thousand slaves took up arms against their masters. In Crowns … Continued
Haitian Revolutionary Studies
By David Patrick Geggus (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) The Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous … Continued
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By Vincent Brown (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved … Continued
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
By Miguel La Serna (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) and Orin Starn On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The … Continued
Slave Resistance
Slave resistance began in British North America almost as soon as the first slaves arrived in the Chesapeake in the early seventeenth century. Forms varied, but the common denominator in all acts of resistance was an attempt to claim some measure of freedom against an institution that defined people fundamentally as property. In addition to … Continued