Scholars call it Maafa, meaning “great tragedy.” The Atlantic slave trade transported millions of humans from the coasts of West Africa into the New World, stripping them of their dignity, freedom, language and culture. The accepted notion is that these Blacks willingly submitted to the slave masters in deference, accepting their new lot in life. When one scours the records, a different story emerges. These Africans were expatriates of urban metropolises and confederacies bound by constitutions of freedom while Europe was in the Dark Ages, and they brought these memories with them to the New World. Black Rebellion chronicles the active resistance of Africans in the New World against their oppressors. As the stories are told, they reveal a unity over time and space. Many Africans did not passively submit to the slavemasters. In fact, many gave their lives in resistance aginst those who wanted them to give up their freedom.

Black Rebellion is a collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas, written by contemporaries and eyewitnesses. It contains accounts of Nat Turner's Revolt, Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy, the Stone Rebellion, the Haitian Revolution, and the Maroon Wars of Jamaica and Surinam.

This collection is further illuminated by an introduction by Dr. Sujan Dass, who ties all of these episodes together into a seamless tapestry that allows readers to see the whole picture.

Contains the full text of T. W. Higginson’s Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts (1889), the full text of Joshua Coffin’s An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections (1860), excerpts from Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805), excerpts from William Wells Brown’s The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), and other works.

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Dr. Sujan Dassis an award- winning educator, author and researcher. Much of his work has focused on at-risk youth and other people struggling against difficult odds. As executive director of Show and Prove Youth Outreach, a nonprofit targeting high-risk teens, he designed programs and curricula teaching the life skills needed for overcoming adversity.Through this work, he became aware of several gaps and ignored areas in the traditional history curriculum taught to American Students. Black Reellion servs to fil one of those gaps. Dr. Dass lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children.