Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at Stanford University in the spring of 1983.
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-220) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Resistance and Afro-American history: some notes on contemporary historiography and suggestions for further research / Herbert Aptheker -- Herbert Aptheker's achievement and our responsibility / Eugene D. Genovese -- Resistance in Africa: from nationalist revolt to agrarian protest / Terence Ranger -- Kikuyu women in the "Mau Mau" rebellion / Cora Ann Presley -- Fugitive slaves: resistance to slavery in the Sokoto caliphate / Paul E. Lovejoy -- From Caribs to Black Caribs: the Amerindian roots of servile resistance in the Caribbean / Michael Craton -- "The family tree is not cut": women and cultural resistance in slave family life in the British Caribbean / Barbara Bush -- Historiography and slave revolt and rebelliousness in the United States: a class approach / Herbert Shapiro -- Strategies and forms of resistance: focus on slave women in the United States / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- "The dram deferred": Black freedom struggles on the eve of white independence / Peter H. Wood -- Black women in resistance: a cross-cultural perspective / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- Bibliographical comment / Bettina Aptheker.
