The Stockade Stood Burning: rebellion and the convict lease in Tennessee’s coalfields, 1891-1895 Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners…
The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods Investigation by Russell Maroon Shoatz into the methods of organisation used by maroons in Suriname…
Japan's wartime use of colonial labour: Taiwan and Korea (1937-45) A thesis detailing the extent of the exploitation of colonial labourers of Taiwanese and Korean…
The British camps Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
Black Reconstruction in America: W.E.B. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois's massive essay about the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the US Civil War. Du Bois argues that the period represented…
1857: Brazilian Slaves Strike Against ID Tags In 1857 a mix of slaves and free black labourers struck to resist an ID tag system and tax on their trade.
1733: The Slave Rebellion of St.John The island of St.John was a Danish colony, in 1733 a group of Akwamu slaves rebelled and successfully captured the island and held it for several…
The German coast uprising of 1811 A short history of possibly the largest slave uprising in the United States, in Louisiana in 1811, written by Rhae Lynn Barnes.
State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution – Robin Blackburn Robin Blackburn on the failure of post-Civil War attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race…
Dixie be damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South - Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford Book detailing three centuries of slave and working class rebellion in the southern…
Slavery Emancipation: 1848 Article exploring the relationship between the Revolution of 1848 and the final abolition of slavery in the French colonies.