Status Updates From The Land Shall Be Deluged i...

I feel like this was such an overlooked portion of American History in high school.

It is nice to see Aptheker and Oates' estimates for reprisal deaths in the aftermath of the revolt to be overestimations—from Aptheker's 200 Breen provides a much more supported 30-40 range. Obviously nothing can make such a grisly scene of murder in the service of the slave system against liberation "nice," it is an astounding fact that the number massacred was not higher.

Very wonderful so far. I had some knowledge of the rebellion, and read Styron's novel in elementary school (though I did not understand the controversy addressed at the beginning of the work). Breen does well in providing a dialectical view of the Aptheker-Foner resistance school vs the Phillips-Genovese school, though I think his work undermines Phillips and especially Genovese (who should've known better) far more.