A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...

Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August...

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...

refused to comply with this decision. This was the catalyst for the 1791 slave rebellion, a key event for the Haitian Revolution with which the new citizens...

Slave rebellions and resistance were means of opposing the system of chattel slavery in the United States. There were many ways that most slaves would...

concentrations of slaves were in the north of the island, and whites lived in fear of slave rebellion. Even by the standards of the Caribbean, French slave masters...

his family as slaves, called the infant Nat in his records. Even when grown, the slave was known simply as Nat; but after the 1831 rebellion, he was widely...

The Demerara rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving between 9,000 and 12,000 slaves that took place in the British colony of Demerara-Essequibo in...

Bussa's rebellion (14–16 April 1816) was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. The rebellion takes its name from the African-born enslaved man...

Workhouse Slave Rebellion (1849) In 1831, Nat Turner, a literate slave who claimed to have spiritual visions, organized a slave rebellion in Southampton...

Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started...

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...

The 1811 German Coast uprising was a slave rebellion which occurred in the Territory of Orleans from January 8–10, 1811. It occurred on the east bank...

The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion was a rebellion of enslaved South Carolinians that took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1849. On...

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Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Guyana that began on 23 February 1763 and lasted to December, with leaders including Coffij. The first major slave...

forcibly stealing the red men's slaves. Worried about the possibility of an Indian uprising and/or an armed slave rebellion, Governor DuVal requested additional...

Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before...

might expect to have two or three slaves. A period of slave rebellions ended with the defeat of Spartacus in 71 BC; slave uprisings grew rare in the Imperial...

dozens of slave rebellions in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Americas. Their fierce and rebellious nature became so notorious among European slave traders...

months into August 1734, the slave rebellion was one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas. The Akwamu slaves captured the fort in Coral...

1670 through the Stono Rebellion (Knopf, 1974) pp.308–326. Peter Charles Hoffer, Cry Liberty. The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739(Oxford University...

Medina slave rebellion was a rebellion which took place in Medina in 763 AD. The rebellion was led by African slaves in Medina who rebelled against the...

First Spanish Republic. 1873–74: The Cantonal rebellion in the First Spanish Republic. 1873: The Khivan slave uprising against slavery in the Khanate of...

ISBN 1-55876-162-4. Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. (2007). "Zanj Slave Revolts". Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Volume 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 585...

Vesey's life. The court judged Vesey guilty of conspiring to launch a slave rebellion and executed him by hanging.[citation needed] The court reported that...

agreement. Large slave rebellions broke out in West Demerara in 1795 and on the East Coast of Demerara in 1823. Although these rebellions were easily and...

the leader of the widespread 1831–32 Baptist War slave rebellion (also known as the Christmas Rebellion) in Jamaica. He was proclaimed a National Hero of...

Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor...

Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade, involved the capture and transportation of predominately black African slaves along...