Bondmen & rebels

First released in 1985 and now issued in paperback for the first time, this work examines how enslaved people in the Americas resisted bondage. Its central case is the large conspiracy of enslaved people on Antigua in 1736, which the author treats as a means of understanding the wider society. Throughout, David Barry Gaspar considers how resistance and white authority shaped one another, showing a relationship that was continuous and reciprocal rather than one-sided.