The Spark of Ambition: Why Slave Rebellions Weren’t Just Cries of Despair, By Chris Knight (Florida)
Forget the Hollywood montage of shackled masses rising in righteous fury against whip-wielding overseers. The story of slave rebellions, as Lipton Matthews deftly unpacks in his October 9 piece, isn't a simplistic saga of misery boiling over. The real spark wasn't crushing deprivation, it was the friction of ambition against chains. Those who led t...