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Newspaper report about the Chatham Manor Revolt (Aurora General Advertiser, Philadelphia, January 9, 1805) Historians in the 20th century identified 250 to 311 slave uprisings in U.S. and colonial history. [15] Those after 1776 include: Gabriel's conspiracy (1800) Igbo Landing slave escape and mass suicide (1803) Chatham Manor Rebellion (1805)
Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith who planned the event, and twenty-five of his followers were hanged .
Curaçao had a slave revolt in 1795, led by Tula. In Venezuela, the insurrection led by José Leonardo Chirino occurred in 1795. In Barbados, a slave revolt occurred in 1816, led by Bussa. In Guyana there was the Demerara Rebellion of 1795. [56] In the British Virgin Islands, minor slave revolts occurred in 1790, 1823 and 1830.
Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner , the rebels, made up of enslaved African Americans , killed between 55 and 65 White people , making it the deadliest slave revolt for the latter racial group in U.S ...
The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion was a rebellion of enslaved South Carolinians that took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1849. On July 13, 1849, an enslaved man named Nicholas Kelly led an insurrection, wounding several guards with improvised weapons and liberating 37 enslaved people.
More people escaped slavery and joined them along the way, and some accounts claimed a total of 200 to 500 people escaped and participated in the rebellion. [3] During their two-day, 20 mi (32 km)-long march, the rebels, armed mostly with improvised weapons , burned five plantations along with several sugarhouses and crop fields.
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 ...
The Stono Rebellion (also known as Cato's Conspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave revolt that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina.It was the largest slave rebellion in the Southern Colonial era, with 25 colonists and 35 to 50 African slaves killed.