Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries, 1700-1860

Paul Barba is an Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty of Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University, USA. He is the author of the prize-winning book Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

• 1. Introduction: The Bonds of Gulf South Rebellion.- 2. Bad Talks: Rebels, Rumors, and the Politics of Fear in the Gulf Borderlands, 1700-1760s.- 3. Enlightened Rebels and Patrimonial Sovereigns: The 1768 French Creole Revolt in Spanish Louisiana.- 4. Repeat Rebels: The Spread of Slave Insurrections in the Atlantic World.- 5. Ready-Made Rebels in the Age of Jeffersonian Expansion: Filibusters and the West Florida Rebellion, 1810.- 6. “Bankrupts at the Head and Vagabonds at the Foot”: Revolutionary Opportunists and Land Speculation in the James Long Expedition of 1819.- 7. In Response to Indigenous Warfare: Development of U.S. Cavalry, 1832-1842.- 8. Bringing the Florida Fight to Indian Territory: The Expansion of Marronage across the Borderlands.- 9. Unruly and Refusing to Submit: Black Women, Fugitive Assistance Networks, and Freedom Fighting in the Texas Borderlands.- 10. Afterword: Settler Rebels, Maroons, and Gulf South Inheritances.