Table of Contents:
  • Fires of discontent, echoes of Africa : the 1712 New York City revolt
  • "Only draw in your countrymen" : the 1741 New York City conspiracy revisited
  • Dance, conjure, and flight : culture and resistance in colonial South Carolina
  • "We will wade to our knees in blood" : blacksmiths and ritual spaces in Gabriel Prosser's conspiracy
  • "I will gather all nations" : ethnic collaboration in Denmark Vesey's Charleston plot
  • "I was ordained for some great purpose" : conjure, Christianity, and Nat Turner's revolt
  • Folklore and the creation of an African American identity.