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    The Berbice Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Guyana that began on 23 February 1763 and lasted to December, with leaders including Coffij. The first...
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    Coffij (category Berbice)
    military assistance to the region, the rebellion had reached the Berbice River and was moving steadily towards the Berbice capital, Fort Nassau. They took gunpowder...
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    The Berbice River /bərˈbiːs/, located in eastern Guyana, is one of the country's major rivers. It rises in the highlands of the Rupununi region and flows...
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    Berbice (/bɜːrˈbiːs/) is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between...
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    he was involved in the suppression of the Berbice Rebellion, a slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice. After the war, he was honored by other sovereigns...
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    Bussa's rebellion New York Slave Revolt of 1712 1733 slave insurrection on St. John Prince Klaas New York Conspiracy of 1741 Berbice Rebellion Denmark...
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     290. "Berbice". British Empire. Retrieved 7 August 2020. McGowan, Winston (2000). "The distinctive features of the 1823 Demerara slave rebellion". Starbroeck...
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    the Aluku. This rebellion was led by Boni.[citation needed] The Berbice Slave Rebellion in Guyana in 1763 was led by Cuffy.[citation needed] Cuba had slave...
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    Coromantee (category Berbice)
    slave rebellion in Berbice, in present-day Guyana, was led by a Coromantin man named Cuffy or Kofi and his deputy Akra or Akara. The slave rebellion lasted...
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  • Wolfert Simon van Hoogenheim (category Governors of Berbice)
    administrator who served as the governor of Berbice from 1760 to 1764. During his tenure as governor, the Berbice Rebellion took place. Wolfert Simon van Hoogenheim...
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    British Virgin Islands Sugar plantations in the Caribbean Bussa's rebellion Berbice Rebellion 1733 slave insurrection on St. John Prince Klaas Denmark Vesey...
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    evolution of the Caribbean Bussa's rebellion Berbice Rebellion 1733 slave insurrection on St. John Prince Klaas Demerara rebellion of 1823 Denmark Vesey Plantocratic...
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    Benjamin d'Urban (1824–1831) Demerara rebellion of 1823 Netscher 1888, p. 290. Schomburgk 1840, p. 86. "Berbice". British Empire. Retrieved 7 August 2020...
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    This is a list of revolutions, rebellions, insurrections, and uprisings.   Revolutionary/rebel victory   Revolutionary/rebel defeat   Another result (e...
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  • Modern era. Cassard expedition (1712) Berbice slave uprising (1763–1764) Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780) Demerara rebellion of 1823 World War II (1939–1945)...
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  • Accabre Huntley – named after one of the insurgents in the 18th-century Berbice Rebellion – was born in London in 1967, the daughter of activists and publishers...
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    Demerara rebellion of 1823. Abolition of slavery timeline Slavery in the British and French Caribbean Baptist War Haitian Revolution Vincent Ogé Berbice slave...
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    half a dozen slave rebellions. Slaves produced coffee, sugar and cotton for the Dutch market. The most famous slave uprising, the Berbice Slave Uprising,...
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    in the early 17th century. They founded the colonies of Essequibo and Berbice, adding Demerara in the mid-18th century. In 1796, Great Britain took over...
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  • leader of the Berbice slave uprising Karen de Souza (born 1958), women and children's activist Jack Gladstone, leader of the Demerara rebellion of 1823 David...
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  • Guyana: Demerara-Mahaica Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Upper Demerara-Berbice This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Demerara...
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    List of conflicts in South America (category Rebellions in South America)
    Surinamese coup d'état 1712 Cassard expedition 1763 — 1764 Berbice slave uprising 1823 Demerara rebellion of 1823 1969 Rupununi Uprising List of conflicts in...
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    shaman, established a settlement of indigenous tribesmen called Bekeranta (Berbice Creole Dutch meaning "Land of the White People") at the base of Kukenán-tepui...
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  • the Berbice River southeast of Essequibo, in 1627. Although under the general jurisdiction of this private group, the settlement, named Berbice, was...
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  • Good Hope and the South American settlements of Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice, where the Dutch retained trading rights. In addition, the British ceded...
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  • girls to entertain the estate's managers. When Wray was sent to nearby Berbice in 1816, his replacement John Smith was equally impressed by Quamina's...
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    Cassard expedition (category Berbice)
    slave trade. He also raided and ransomed Montserrat, Antigua, Surinam, Berbice, and Essequibo—wealthy sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean whose...
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    (1994). A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Kouwenburg, Silvia (2012). "The Ijo‑derived Lexicon of Berbice Dutch Creole: An A‑typical...
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    had several territories in the region, including Essequibo, Demerara, Berbice, and Surinam. Dutch settlements were also established on the Cuyuni River...
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    sailed from Calcutta for British Guiana on 13 January 1838, and arrived in Berbice on 5 May 1838. Transportation to the Caribbean stopped in 1848 due to problems...
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