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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.
Louis van Mauritius (died 1808) was a slave in the Cape Colony (now South Africa). Working as a tailor, [1] he led a slave rebellion on 27 October 1808, in which over 300 slaves participated. [2] The rebellion failed and 47 people were put on trial. Twenty, including van Mauritius, were sentenced to death. [3]
Slaves coming from West Central Africa accounted for 44 percent of the trade while only experiencing 11 percent of total revolts. [33] Lorenzo J. Greene gives many accounts of slave revolts on ships coming out of New England. These ships belonged to Puritans who controlled much of the slave trade in New England. [34]
Slavery in South Africa existed from 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony until the abolition of slavery in the British Cape Colony on 1 January 1834. This followed the British banning the trade of slaves between colonies in 1807, with their emancipation by 1834. Beyond legal abolition, slavery continued in the Transvaal though a system of ...
The Maritz rebellion, also known as the Boer revolt, Third Boer War, [2] or the Five Shilling rebellion, [3] was an armed pro-German insurrection in South Africa in 1914, at the start of World War I. It was led by Boers who supported the re-establishment of the South African Republic in the Transvaal .
The African lion, Panthera leo, can grow to eight feet long and weigh up to 600 pounds. Lions are some of the most social of the big cats, living in groups of 2-30 called prides. While females ...
Bayano, also known as Ballano or Vaino, was an African enslaved by Portuguese who led the biggest slave revolts of the 16th century Panama.Captured from the Yoruba community in West Africa, it has been argued that his name means idol. [1]
West Transvaal Boers and others procured women and children as slaves and used them as domestic servants and plantation workers. [26] Boer slave raids in the South African Republic were regular and the number captured totaled in the thousands. [26] This is despite the prohibition of slavery north of the Vaal River under the 1852 Sand River ...