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    Tacky's Revolt (also known as Tacky's Rebellion and Tacky's War) was a slave rebellion in the British colony of Jamaica which lasted from 7 April 1760...
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    Jamaica, many of which were attributed to Tacky's cunning and strategy. Other enslaved people learned of Tacky's revolt, which inspired unrest and disorder...
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  • Jamaicans in the eighteenth century. In 1760, when Tacky's War broke out, slaves rose up in revolt on Bayly's estates at Trinity. Bayly owned over 2,000...
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  • Hall who gained notoriety by killing coromantyne Tacky (chief) of the tribe, the leader of Tacky's Revolt, the most dangerous slave rebellion in eighteenth-century...
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    mounted over a dozen major uprisings during the 18th century, including Tacky's Revolt in 1760. There were also periodic skirmishes between the British and...
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    Slave rebellion (redirect from Slave revolt)
    recognised their freedom in five separate Maroon Towns.[citation needed] Tacky's War (1760) was a slave uprising in Jamaica, which ran from May to July...
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  • him, and put it down to inspiration they were receiving from news of Tacky's revolt.: , pp. 97–99  In the years that followed, Thistlewood wrote about attempts...
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  • Vincent, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020), pp. 1–2. Brown, Tacky's Revolt: The...
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  • In western Jamaica, Apongo led another slave rebellion, inspired by Tacky's Revolt, which lasted from April 1760 to October 1761. Cudjoe's well-trained...
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    colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt began on 22 August 1791, and ended in 1804 with the former colony's independence...
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    Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831...
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    Americans, killed between 55 and 65 white people, making it the deadliest slave revolt for the latter racial group in U.S. history. The rebellion was effectively...
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  • Prize for Tacky's Revolt 2021: James A. Rawley Prize (OAH) for Tacky's Revolt 2021: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for non-fiction for Tacky's Revolt 2020: Cundill...
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    Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 9780761417859 – via Google Books. Vincent Brown, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard...
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    Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020), p. 54. Vincent Brown, Tacky's Revolt: The...
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    group included more than 500 men; consequently, rumors of a large-scale revolt were not long in coming. Warnings increased during the reign of viceroy...
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    Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith who...
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    Revolt http://revolt.axismaps.com/map/ Archived 13 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 29 January 2021. Brown, Vincent, Tacky's Revolt: The Story...
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  • the British and the Maroons, alongside occasional revolts from enslaved people. In 1673, a revolt of 200 enslaved Africans in St. Ann Parish created...
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    November 23, 1733, when 150 African slaves from Akwamu, in present-day Ghana, revolted against the owners and managers of the island's plantations. Led by Breffu...
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    Bussa's rebellion (14–16 April 1816) was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. The rebellion takes its name from the African-born slave, Bussa...
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    (2011). American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt. Harper Collins. p. 89. Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo (1992). Africans in Colonial...
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    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...
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    The Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795 was a slave revolt in the Dutch colony of Curaçao, led by the enslaved man Tula (Toela in a contemporary Dutch report)...
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    following sequence of events is unclear, as there are several versions of the revolt's development, some of which are considered mythological. Apparently the...
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    which they have been joined by some descendants of participants in the revolt. The sugar boom on what was known as Louisiana's German Coast (named for...
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    South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822. Although the alleged plot was discovered before it could be realized...
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  • 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...
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    1760–61 Tacky's Revolt (British Jamaica, suppressed) 1768 Montserrat slave rebellion (British Montserrat, suppressed) 1787 Abaco Slave Revolt (British...
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    workhouse, and a special committee report released in August blamed the revolt on the "great laxity of discipline" that had "prevailed for some time past...
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