Conspiracy scares

William and Mary Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 159-166

  Morgan, Philip D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61449419911     PISSN: 00435597     EISSN: 1933-769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3491645     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Philip D. Morgan, "Black Life in Eighteenth-Century Charleston," Perspectives in American History, N. S., 1 (1984), 213
2. Robert M. Weir, Colonial South Carolina: A History (Millwood, N. Y., 1983), 200-03
3. Walter J. Fraser, Jr., Charleston! Charleston!: The History of a Southern City (Columbia, S. C., 1989), 144-47
4. Johnson, "Denmark Vesey and His Co-conspirators," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 58 (2001), 915-76 (references to this article are in parentheses in the text)
5. Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War (New York, 1994), 46
6. as cited by Johnson, "Denmark Vesey and His Co-conspirators," 920
7. Robertson, Denmark Vesey (New York, 1999), 4-8, 31, 36, 38, 39
8. Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey (Madison, 1999), 79 (polygamy), 139 (July 14), 3 (Ashanti), 11 (handsome), 3, 21, 75, 119, 185 (size), 19-20 (French), 26 (African religion), 33 (never whipped), 36 (love), 51, 72 (demeanor), 71 (Monday Gell), 99 (wardrobe), 117, 127 (Walker), 140 (dimensions of plot)
9. Egerton is not the first to suggest Vesey associated with Walker: see Peter P. Hinks, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance (University Park, Pa., 1997), 30-37, 39-40
10. Simms, History of South Carolina (Charleston, 1849), 348
11. Grimké, Right on the Scaffold, or, The Martyrs of 1822 (Washington, D. C., 1901), 6
12. Remini, The Jacksonian Era, 2d ed. (Wheeling, 1997), 59
13. Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (New York, 1990), 79
14. Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free, 7-8
15. Pearson, Designs against Charleston, 22
16. Robertson, Denmark Vesey, 44
17. Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free, 118, 133
18. Robertson, Denmark Vesey, 8, 92
19. Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free, 237, 194
20. Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York, 1982), 402
21. Morgan and George D. Terry, "Slavery in Microcosm: A Conspiracy Scare in Colonial South Carolina," Southern Studies, 21 (1982), 121-45
22. Robert Olwell, "'To Speak the Real Truth': Slaves, Masters, and the Creation of the Documentary Record in the Cooper River Slave Conspiracy of 1749" (unpublished paper)
23. Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston, 2000), 174-210, quotation on 178
24. Graham Russell Hodges, Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey (Chapel Hill, 1999), 91-99
25. For a judicious view see Thomas J. Davis, A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York (New York, 1985)
26. and Davis, ed., The New York Slave Conspiracy (Boston, 1971)
27. I have benefited from reading Greg O'Malley, "'These Enemies of Their Own Household': New York's Slave Conspiracy and White Anxiety of 1741" (Boston University Honors Thesis, 1999), which was especially helpful in analyzing the patterns of pleas
28. Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (Chapel Hill, 1968), 116-21, is astute about the conspiracy
29. Gaspar, Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua with Implications for Colonial British America (Baltimore, 1985), 12
30. John K. Thornton, "War, the State, and Religious Norms in 'Coromantee' Thought: The Ideology of an African American Nation," in Robert Blair St. George, ed., Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America (Ithaca, 2000), 181-200, esp. 195
31. see the analyses for a later series of insurrectionary panics in John Scott Strickland, "The Great Revival and Insurrectionary Fears in North Carolina: An Examination of Antebellum Southern Society and Slave Revolt Panics," in Orville Vernon Burton and Robert C. McMath, Jr., eds., Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies (Westport, Conn., 1982), 57-95
32. and Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, 402-34