LEADER 04504oam 22006734a 450 001 996247957703316 005 20230323173931.0 010 $a0-8071-5119-X 010 $a0-8071-4198-4 024 7 $a2027/heb00096 035 $a(CKB)1000000000397425 035 $a(EBL)987394 035 $a(OCoLC)806206345 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000697013 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11363614 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000697013 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10683246 035 $a(PQKB)10705779 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC987394 035 $a(OCoLC)804858970 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21524 035 $a(dli)HEB00096 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003603004 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000397425 100 $a19950703d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTumult and Silence at Second Creek $eAn Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy /$fWinthrop D. Jordan 205 $aRev. ed./Louisiana pbk. ed. 210 $aBaton Rouge $cLouisiana State University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (424 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8071-1762-5 311 $a0-8071-2039-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and ind index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Note of Appreciation and Thanks; Abbreviations and Notations on Sources; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 An Episode in May; CHAPTER 2 Evidentiary Sounds and Voices; CHAPTER 3 Of Water, Land, and Work; CHAPTER 4 Of the Planting Classes; CHAPTER 5 Of One Kind of Politics; CHAPTER 6 The Trials; CHAPTER 7 The Rebels; CHAPTER 8 Road Travelers; CHAPTER 9 Of Women White and Black; CHAPTER 10 Of Ideologies and Occupations; CHAPTER 11 Of Means and Leaders; CHAPTER 12 The Voices of Reprise; CHAPTER 13 A Separate Peace 327 $aAppendixes: Documents and Cast of CharactersNote on the Documents; DOCUMENT A: Lemuel P. Conner's Record (Literal); DOCUMENT B: Lemuel P. Conner's Record (Augmented); DOCUMENT C: Susan Sillers Darden Diary; DOCUMENT D: How[ell] Hines to Governor; DOCUMENT E: Jo. D. L. Davenport to Governor; DOCUMENT F: Benjamin L. C. Wailes Diary; DOCUMENTS G: Louisa and Joseph Lovell Letters; DOCUMENT H: William J. Minor Plantation Diary; DOCUMENT I: S[ophia] H. Hunt to Jennie [Hughes]; DOCUMENTS: J William H. Ker to Mary S. Ker; DOCUMENT K: A. K. Farrar to Governor; DOCUMENT L: Van S. Bennett Dairy 327 $aDOCUMENT M: Statement of Pleasant ScottDOCUMENT N: Statement of James Carter; DOCUMENT O: Testimony of Rebecca A. Minor; DOCUMENT P: Testimony of William T. Martin; DOCUMENT Q: Brief on Loyalty, Katherine S. Minor Claim; DOCUMENT R: Opinion on the Minors' Role at the Racetrack; DOCUMENT S: John McFarland to ""My Dear Sir""; DOCUMENT T: Lemuel Conner to General Polk; DOCUMENT Y: Charlie Davenport Interview (Version Y); DOCUMENT Z: Charlie Davenport Interview (Version Z); Cast of Characters; Black, by Own Name (If Known); Black, by Owner's Name or Not Owned; White 327 $aAuthor's Addenda (Revised Edition)Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y 330 $aIn the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the central document, previously unanalyzed by modern scholars, upon which this extraordinary book is based - a record of the testimony 606 $aPlantation life$zMississippi$zAdams County$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zMississippi$zAdams County$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlave rebellions$zMississippi$zAdams County 607 $aAdams County (Miss.)$xRace relations 615 0$aPlantation life$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aSlave rebellions 676 $a976.22600496073 676 $a976.22605 700 $aJordan$b Winthrop D$0468078 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247957703316 996 $aTumult and Silence at Second Creek$92408274 997 $aUNISA