A Nation Rising by Kenneth C. Davis

Author:Kenneth C. Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

THE EVENTS IN the Caribbean hardly went unnoticed in America, even before Thomas Jefferson was elected and was able to complete the Louisiana Purchase. The grim spectacle of slaves humiliating and murdering large numbers of their white owners powerfully concentrated the attention of American slave owners. The revolution in Saint Domingue sent shivers through slaveholding America and helped inspire draconian new codes meant to tighten controls over American slaves. Chief among them was a prohibition against teaching slaves to read. American slaveholders thought that keeping slaves illiterate would prevent them from learning about the uprising in the Caribbean. But even illiterate slaves were soon whispering Toussaint’s name. And in 1800, even as Jefferson, Burr, and Adams campaigned for the presidency, Richmond, Virginia, was about to get a firsthand taste of what slave insurrection actually meant.

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