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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 ...
[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]
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 ...
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.
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.
The 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation was the largest escape of a group of slaves to occur in the Cherokee Nation, in what was then Indian Territory. The slave revolt started on November 15, 1842, when a group of 20 African-Americans enslaved by the Cherokee escaped and tried to reach Mexico , where slavery had been abolished in 1829.
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]
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