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Another famous slave rebellion, the Third Servile War, was led by the slave Spartacus. In the 9th century, the poet Ali bin Muhammad led imported East African slaves against the Abbasid Caliphate in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion. Nanny of the Maroons was an 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons who led them to victory in the First Maroon ...
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 ...
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]
One child survivor of American slavery retold "his parents' stories about slaves sometimes killing the bloodhounds that some whites kept for tracking runaways" [1] (Richard Ansdell, The Hunted Slaves, 1862, National Museum of African American History and Culture) Slave rebellions and resistance were means of opposing the system of chattel ...
1914–1915: The Boer Revolt against the British in South Africa. 1914: The revolt of Peasants of Central Albania overthrows Prince William of Wied. 1915: The Armenian revolt in city of Van against the Ottomans in Turkey. 1915: Somba rebellion (Tammari people) [184]
In 1843-1844, enslaved Lucumí women Carlota and Ferminia, led the slave rebellion of Year of the Lash on Cuba. In 1857–1858, Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was one of the leaders of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Begum Hazrat Mahal also led a band of her supporters in support of Laskhimbai during the revolt. [citation needed]
Amador Vieira, best known as Rei Amador, was a member of the king of the Angolars and leader of a famous slave rebellion that took place in 1595 in the African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. According to some historic documents, Rei Amador was "a slave" who avoided slavery and mobilized all the Angolares along with other Africans and made ...
Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) (c. 1767 –July 2, 1822) was a free Black man and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822. [1]