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[4]: 597 As such, "Confrontation in the Old South characteristically took the form of an individual slave's open resistance to plantation authorities," [4]: 599 or other individual or small-group actions, such as slaves opportunistically killing slave traders in hopes of avoiding forced migration away from friends and family. [5] [6]
In Barbados, a slave revolt occurred in 1816, led by Bussa. In Guyana there was the Demerara Rebellion of 1795. [55] 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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Slave rebellions in South America" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795; D. Demerara ...
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 .
An unsuccessful slave rebellion at Chatham Manor United States Slave Rebels Rebellion suppressed 1809 Jørgen Jørgensen's Revolution Great Britain Denmark–Norway: Revolutionaries 1817 Tican's Rebellion Austrian Empire: Serb rebels 1808 Rum Rebellion: Colony of New South Wales: New South Wales Corps: 1808 Kruščica Rebellion Austrian Empire
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry [nb 1] was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).
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.