Refuse to be Slaves
Freedom Was Never Given—It Was Taken: Introducing Refuse to Be Slaves For too long, popular history has told the end of slavery as a story of benevolent abolitionists and enlightened statesmen. But this narrative conveniently sidelines the people who actually fought for their own freedom . Refuse to Be Slaves: Slave Rebellions, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom in the Americas restores agency to the enslaved. It centers the voices, strategies, and struggles of those who refused to accept bondage as their fate . A Revolutionary Reframing of History This book is not about passive victims or benevolent outsiders. It is about freedom as a Taken, not given . Across 250 meticulously researched pages , Refuse to Be Slaves traces twenty major rebellions and resistance movements that reshaped the Atlantic world: From the mountains of colonial Mexico to Jamaican sugar estates From urban conspiracies in U.S. port cities to the revolutionary triumph in Haiti From maro...