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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. 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 1733 slave insurrection on St. John (Danish: Slaveoprøret på Sankt Jan) or the Slave Uprising of 1733, was a slave insurrection started on Sankt Jan in the Danish West Indies (now St. John, United States Virgin Islands) on November 23, 1733, when 150 African slaves from Akwamu, in present-day Ghana, revolted against the owners and managers of the island's plantations.
Founded in the 1730s, Georgia's powerful backers did not necessarily object to slavery as an institution, but their business model was to rely on labor from Britain (primarily England's poor) and they were also concerned with security, given the closeness of then Spanish Florida, and Spain's regular offers to enemy-slaves to revolt or escape.
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
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.
Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835–1838) [124] Amistad seizure (1839) [125] 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation [126] Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion (1849) In 1831, Nat Turner, a literate slave who claimed to have spiritual visions, organized a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia; it was sometimes called the ...
The Servile Wars were a series of three slave revolts ("servile" is derived from servus, Latin for "slave") in the late Roman Republic: First Servile War (135−132 BC) — in Sicily, led by Eunus, a former slave claiming to be a prophet, and Cleon from Cilicia. Second Servile War (104−100 BC) — in Sicily, led by Athenion and Tryphon.
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)