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According to Herbert Aptheker, "there were few phases of ante-bellum Southern life and history that were not in some way influenced by the fear of, or the actual outbreak of, militant concerted slave action." [3] Slave rebellions in the United States were small and diffuse compared with those in other slave economies in part due to "the ...
Nat Turner's slave rebellion: August 21–23, 1831 Southampton County, Virginia: Rebel slaves Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people. [13] The rebellion was put down within a few days. [14] Local blacks were massacred. Led to discriminatory legislation against both free blacks and slaves Dorr Rebellion: 1841–1842 ...
The most famous slave rebellion in Europe was led by Spartacus in Roman Italy, the Third Servile War. This war resulted in the 6,000 surviving rebel slaves being crucified along the main roads leading into Rome. [3] This was the third in a series of unrelated Servile Wars fought by slaves against the Romans.
Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835–1838) [125] Amistad seizure (1839) [126] 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation [127] Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion (1849) In 1831, Nat Turner, a literate slave who claimed to have spiritual visions, organized a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia; it was sometimes called the ...
Scholars are marking the 500th anniversary of the Santo Domingo Slave Revolt On Dec. 26, 1521, the first anti-slavery rebellion in the Americas.
Pages in category "Slave rebellions in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
On September 9, 1739, a literate slave named Jemmy led a rebellion against South Carolina slaveholders in an event referred to as the Stono Rebellion (also known as Cato's Conspiracy and Cato's Rebellion.) The runaway slaves involved in the revolt intended to reach Spanish-controlled Florida to attain freedom, but their plans were thwarted by ...
Historian and the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, Joseph McGill Jr., has waged a counter-attack on anti-CRT by way of a poignant three-day conference.