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Slaves coming from West Central Africa accounted for 44 percent of the trade while only experiencing 11 percent of total revolts. [32] 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. [33]
[74] [75] The prerequisites for slave societies to exist weren't present in West Africa prior to the Atlantic slave trade considering the small market sizes and the lack of a division of labour. [74] Most West African societies were formed in kinship units which would make slavery a rather marginal part of the production process within them. [2]
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.
Cuffy (died 1763), was an Akan man who was captured in his native West Africa, taken to work in the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana, and in 1763 led a revolt of more than 2,500 slaves against the colonial regime. Today, he is a national hero in Guyana.
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) [185]
The Triunvirato rebellion, as well as La Escalera more broadly, are important to Cuban history in that they marked the peak of white fear of slave uprising and the end of a streak of slave revolts throughout the first half of the 19th century that wouldn't pick up again until the start of Cuba's independence movement against Spain in 1868.
Zanzibar and German East Africa, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885-90 The Abushiri Revolt, also known as the Slave Trader Revolt (German: Sklavenhändlerrevolte), but generally referred to by modern historians as the Coastal Rebellion, was an insurrection in 1888–1889 by the Arab, Swahili and African population of the coast of what is now Tanzania.
Nevis, which has similar geography and was relatively sheltered, became an early center of the slave trade in the West Indies. [4] The first census of Nevis, conducted in 1671, recorded 1,739 African slaves. [5] Six years later this number grew to 3,849, consisting of 1,422 men, 1,321 women, and 1,106 children. [6]