Andrew Zonneveld
Independent historian, journalist, naturalist, publisher, and freelance editor | Author of “All Will Be Equalized!:” Georgia’s Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands, 1526-1890 | Co-founder of On Our Own Authority!, the Atlanta Radical Book Fair, and Community Books of Stone Mountain | Essays and articles in ROAR Magazine, Mergoat Magazine, Orobo Journal, and Atlanta Community Press Collective
“All Will Be Equalized!”: Georgia’s Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands
$25.00
From Afro-Indigenous communities of the Sea Islands and the Okefenokee Swamp to inter-racial networks of anti-Confederate resistance during the Civil War and post-war labor strikes by Black and white granite workers at Stone Mountain, this new study of Georgia’s freedom movements tells the story of oppressed peoples of African, Indigenous, and even European descent who fought together against slavery and colonialism while building multi-racial communities of resistance in remote areas outside of state or colonial authority.
Reviews
“Zonneveld’s work […] lifts the veil on the hither-to unrevealed history and reclaims the remote and excluded corners of Georgia’s formative centuries, spanning almost four hundred years from the pre-colonial period until the emergence of Jim Crow apartheid.”
— Modibo Kadalie, author of Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom.
“Writing in engaged and passionate prose, historian and activist Andrew Zonneveld tells the fascinating stories of the region’s people’s movements, from the era of early colonization through the end of the nineteenth century and beyond.”
— Robert H. Woodrum, Associate Professor of History, Perimeter College of Georgia State University, and author of “Everybody Was Black Down There”: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields.
“A timely read for all freedom seekers against the backdrop of today’s fascist landscape, and a beautiful reminder that small-scale resistance and self-emancipation among so-called ordinary people was—and is—possible under the worst of forms of bondage, whether colonialism or slavery, nation-states or capitalism.”
— Cindy Barukh Milstein, author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations, and editor of Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy.
“I have always been drawn to stories in history of perseverance and especially resistance to oppression. Seldom do you see it taught in schools and when something comes along to fill in the holes we should take to it. “All Will Be Equalized!” does that, showing that there was a cross section of people from different cultures and lands who did not simply lay down for a dominating ruling class, but instead pushed back against it in the name of a freedom they were sorely lacking. It is a powerful read and anyone who does will learn that it
is truly right to rebel!”
— Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Executive Director, One People’s Project.
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