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One child survivor of American slavery retold "his parents' stories about slaves sometimes killing the bloodhounds that some whites kept for tracking runaways" [1] (Richard Ansdell, The Hunted Slaves, 1862, National Museum of African American History and Culture) Slave rebellions and resistance were means of opposing the system of chattel ...
The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 define as slaves all those servants brought into the colony who were not Christian in their original countries, as well as Native American slaves sold by other Indians to colonists. [citation needed] 1712. April 6 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 breaks out. [16] 1738
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
1711 - Cary's Rebellion; 1712 - New York Slave Revolt of 1712, April 6, New York City, New York; 1715 - Yamasee War; 1713 - Boston Bread Riot, Boston, Massachusetts; 1734 - Mast Tree Riot, Fremont, New Hampshire; 1737 - Boston Brothel Riot, Boston, Massachusetts; 1739 - Stono Rebellion, Slave rebellion., September, Province of South Carolina
1825 Great African Slave Revolt (Cuba, suppressed) 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion (Virginia, suppressed) 1831–32 Baptist War (British Jamaica, suppressed) 1839 Amistad, ship rebellion (off the Cuban coast, victorious) 1841 Creole case, ship rebellion (off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious) 1842 slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation
Creole revolt: Creole American slave ship Slaves Revolt successful 1841-1842 Dorr Rebellion: Rhode Island: Disenfranchised voters led by Thomas Wilson Dorr: Military government victory Land qualification to vote removed from the state constitution 1841-1842 Afghan uprising: Kabul, Emirate of Kabul
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One of the most successful slave rebellions in history was the Haitian Revolution, which saw self-emancipated slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue overthrow the colonial government and repulse invasion attempts by the French, Spanish and British to establish the independent state of Haiti.