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Warfare, slave raids, legal punishments, self-sales, or sales by relatives, and inheritance of slave status from birth were the common ways individuals become a slave in Central Asia. Linguistic analysis of the vocabulary used for slavery in early Central Asian societies suggests a strong connection between military actions and slavery. [ 18 ]
In Barbados, a slave revolt occurred in 1816, led by Bussa. In Guyana there was the Demerara Rebellion of 1795. [57] In the British Virgin Islands, minor slave revolts occurred in 1790, 1823 and 1830. In Cuba, there were several revolts starting in 1825 with an uprising in Guamacaro and ending with the revolts of 1843 in Matanzas. These revolts ...
The Zanj Rebellion (Arabic: ثورة الزنج Thawrat al-Zanj / Zinj) was a major revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate, which took place from 869 until 883.Begun near the city of Basra in present-day southern Iraq and led by one Ali ibn Muhammad, the insurrection involved both enslaved and freed East Africans or Abyssinians (collectively termed "Zanj" in this case) exported in the Indian ...
New York Slave Revolt of 1712: Colony of New York: Rebel slaves Rebellion suppressed 1715 First Jacobite rising: Kingdom of Great Britain Dutch Republic. Rebels led by James Francis Edward Stuart: Rebellion suppressed 1720 Vila Rica Revolt: Minas Gerais, Brazil: Rebels [167] [168] 1722 Afghan rebels defeated Shah Sultan Husayn and ended the ...
Arab slave traders fooled both Javanese Muslims and Javanese Christians, tricking them into sending their children to slavery by lying and promising to escort the children to different places. A 4- and 3-year-old pair of Javanese Muslim boys were enslaved after they were purportedly to be taken to Mecca to learn Islam.
A significant reason for the use of slave labor in Malaya was the low population density, which made the supply of free labor insufficient. [11] Slaves served in a variety of different roles, such as servants in private households of the rich, as sex slaves in concubinage, or as agricultural laborers as well as craftsmen, among other roles. [12]
The map of Dungan Revolt. As Taiping troops approached southeastern Shaanxi in the spring of 1862, the local Han Chinese, encouraged by the Qing government, formed Yong Ying militias to defend the region against the attackers. Afraid of the now-armed Han, the Muslims formed their own militia units as a response.
Insurgent groups in Asia (1 C, 7 P) Rebellions in Asia by country (24 C) B. ... 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine; 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency; 1979 Qatif ...