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  Genovese, Slave Revolts in Hemispheric Perspective (1981)
The slaves of the Caribbean knew that London had the power to abolish slavery, especially after it abolished the slave trade, but the slaves of the Old South experienced little or no exterior power except that of their masters, whose consent was necessary even to abolish the African slave trade.
The most impressive slave revolts in the hemisphere proceeded in alliance with maroons or took place in periods in which maroon activity was directly undermining the slave regime or inspiring the slaves by example.
Increasingly, the slaves had to bid for the abolition of slavery as a system-bid, that is, not as particular groups for their own freedom but for a social revolution and the freedom of all.
www.virginia.edu /woodson/courses/aas405c/genovese.html   (12785 words)

  
 Slave Rebellions
All of the major slave revolts in the south were led by people like Prosser, who were deeply Christian and were fired by religious indignation against slavery.
Prosser's revolt was the closest America came to a revolution on the same scale as that in Haiti.
An integral aspect of slave and free Christianity was its emphasis on the delivery of the "children of Israel" from bondage in Egypt.
www.wsu.edu /~dee/DIASPORA/REBEL.HTM   (1574 words)

  
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Only in the case of the couple's daughter were the slaves seen to show consideration throughout, and this was because of her kindly nature, in that to the extent of her power she was always compassionate and ready to succour the slaves.
The first war with slaves occurred in the infancy of Rome, in the heart of the city, when Herdonius Sabinus was their leader, and when, while the state was distracted with the seditions of the tribunes, the Capitol was besieged and wrested by the consul from the servile multitude.
We may, however, support the dishonour of a war with slaves, for though they are, by their circumstances, subjected to all kinds of treatment, they are yet, as it were, a second class of men, and may be admitted to the enjoyment of liberty with ourselves.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm   (11725 words)

  
 Enslave African Resistance and Revolts
The revolt spread, particularly on the northwest side of the island, and some 300 enslave Africans were on the war path, going from estate to estate.
Slaves failing to report what they knew of runaways would be branded in their forehead and would get 100 lashes.
The revolt is the result of the cruelty with which the Dutch plantation owners have been treating the enslaved Africans.
www.swagga.com /revolts.htm   (3970 words)

  
 30. The Beginning of the Berbice Slave Rebellion
But after the slaves repelled a militia force sent by the Governor, Van Hoogenheim, the rebellion was finally repressed by a stronger force of the Dutch militia.
The slaves killed the manager and carpenter, burned down the owner's house, and moved on to neighbouring plantations, and as far as the Corentyne, to urge support from the slaves there, some of whom attacked their owners and either joined the others or escaped into the forest.
A number of creole slaves - those born in the colony - did not wholeheartedly support the rebellion, and they gave up themselves to plantations which were far removed from the area of rebel activity.
www.guyana.org /features/guyanastory/chapter30.html   (946 words)

  
 AFRO-Americ@: Black Resistance... Slavery in the U.S.
Slave revolt on slave trader 'Creole' which was en route from Hampton, Va., to New Orleans, La., Nov 7.
Ellen Craft impersonated a slave holder, William Craft acted as her servant in one of the most dramatic slave escapes--this one from slavery in Georgia, Dec 26.
Like most leaders of American Negro slave revolts, Prosser was a deeply religious man. He meditated upon the Bible and dreamed dreams of a Negro state-not in the Caribbean but in Virginia, the land of Jefferson and Washington.
www.afro.com /history/slavery/revolts.html   (712 words)

  
 Independent Lens . NAT TURNER: A Troublesome Property . Slave Rebellions | PBS
Slave owners lived in fear of slave revolts, a fear which was far from unfounded: from the Amistad mutiny to the Underground Railroad, American slaves—led by themselves or with the help of abolitionists—staged many instances of revolt and resistance.
Armed slaves start marching to Florida and towards freedom, but the insurrection is put down and at least 20 whites and more than 40 fls are killed.
By summer he has enlisted more than 1,000 slaves and collected an armory of weapons, organizing the first large-scale slave revolt in the U.S. On the day of the revolt, the bridges leading to Richmond are destroyed in a flood, and Prosser is betrayed.
www.pbs.org /independentlens/natturner/slave_rebellions.html   (630 words)

  
 Two-page summary of the Black Seminole slave rebellion, the largest slave revolt in U.S. history
Slave rebellion in that field slaves conspired to plan the uprising, then fled and destroyed plantations; military officials thought the slaves were fighting to obtain passage to freedom in Cuba.
In references to the Seminole war, major historians from Genovese to Elkins to Franklin are unclear on the actors (slaves vs. maroons), the action (rebellion vs. "capture"), and the scope (385 slaves) of the Florida rebellion.
The largest slave rebellion in U.S. history: Essay documenting size and scope of the rebellion and comparing it to other major U.S. slave revolts.
www.johnhorse.com /toolkit/two-pager.htm   (866 words)

  
 HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- Southampton Slave Revolt
A number of slave revolt conspiracies were uncovered in the South between 1820 and 1831 but none frightened Southerners as much as Nat Turner's rebellion.
Nat Turner was born a slave in Virginia in 1800 and grew to become a slave preacher.
The first report of the Turner revolt was sent in the form of a letter from the Postmaster of Jerusalem to the Governor of Virginia.
www.historybuff.com /library/refslave.html   (957 words)

  
 Cover story: Beneath the gentility, a harsh, hidden past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Slaves were a minor theme woven through her remarks.
He describes in graphic, often wrenching detail how slaves lived in small houses called holding pens before they were sold, how their bodies were touched and groped, their orifices inspected by prospective buyers who saw them as a species of property.
Slaves were decked out rather formally -- the men in dark suits and top hats, the women in blouses with long sleeves, as shown in a famous magazine drawing from the 1850s.
www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/022500/022500a.htm   (2484 words)

  
 Spartacus and the Climax of the Slave Revolt (DBA Battle Scenario)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
SLAVE REVOLT (Spartacus) -- This is a puzzle - not with respect to this film, but with respect to real life.
The slave army is in a rabble, with the fire-logs at the front.
The surviving slaves were crucified as in the film, making a grisly line of crosses all the way to Rome along the great Appian Way.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/spartacus.html   (1536 words)

  
 African American Odyssey: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution (Part 1)
The European, American, and African slave traders engaged in the lucrative trade in humans, and the politicians and businessmen who supported them, did not intend to put into motion a chain of events that would motivate the captives and their descendants to fight for full citizenship in the United States of America.
Slaves were then transported across the Atlantic--the infamous middle passage--primarily to Brazil and the Caribbean, where they were sold.
After the captain's demise, the slaves rebelled, killed one crew member, and wounded several others before they were suppressed after seven of them had been killed.
lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html   (1516 words)

  
 The only successful slave revolt in the world | csmonitor.com
Haiti's was the first, and the only, successful slave revolt in the history of the world.
Slaves were imported from French colonies in Africa, and an oligarchy of plantation owners ruled the land.
When decrees were sent from Paris about how slaves should be treated, the planters ignored them and treated their "property" as inhumanely as they wished.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/0323/p15s01-bogn.htm   (912 words)

  
 The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Slaves rebel on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which now comprises Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Slaves in New York City kill whites during an uprising, later squelched by the militia.
President Abraham Lincoln decrees that all slaves in Rebel territory are free on January 1, 1863.
www.nationalgeographic.com /features/99/railroad/tl.html   (607 words)

  
 Slave Revolt
Slave Revolt in a (Beyond the Shadow) piece called 'An American fraud every century' explores these dynamics in the period of the American presidential race of 1876 between (R) Rutherford B. Hayes and (D) Samuel Tilden.
Slave Revolt explores these issues in a (Ruins of Empire) segment called 'Dollar$ and Chain$ 3: The restructuring of America into a permanent war command society'.
From the war on 'illegal' immigration, to domestic surveillance, to indefinite imprisonment, the policies being managed by our enemies are to further discipline the population in a permanent war command mode.
slaverevoltradio.blogspot.com   (2294 words)

  
 Africans in America/Part 1/New York's Revolt of 1712
Thirdly, living in such a densely populated area also meant that slaves worked in close proximity to free men, a far cry from the situation on the plantations to the south.
A master could punish his slaves as he saw fit (even for no reason at all), as long as the slave did not lose his or her life or limb.
There was even a law that discouraged masters from freeing a slave: The master could free a slave, but only after posting a bond of 200 [pounds].
www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part1/1p285.html   (349 words)

  
 Historical Background of the Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
Nevertheless about one thousand slaves, some mounted, armed with clubs, scythes, home-made bayonets, and a few guns, did appear at an agreed-upon rendezvous six miles outside the City, but, as already noted, attack was not possible, and /222/ the slaves disbanded.
A precise number of those executed cannot be given with certainty, but it appears likely that at least thirty-five Negroes were hanged, four condemned slaves escaped from prison (and no reference to their recapture has been seen), while one committed suicide in prison.
As has been previously mentioned (and this again is an indication of the attitude of the slaves), Methodists, Quakers, and Frenchmen were to be spared by the rebels.
www.chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/spl/gabrielrevolt.html   (1102 words)

  
 Soul Of America - Charleston: Denmark Vesey's Plan of Uprising Against Slavery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In 1781 he took a cargo of 390 slaves, one of whom was a boy of fourteen who stood out for his intelligence.
Denmark was not accustomed to the degrading practice of bowing and cringing in the presence of whites, which surely earned him resentment by others.
In the slaveholders view, “slaves might get uppity and demand their freedom”, which would ruin their gravy train.
www.soulofamerica.com /cityfldr/charleston8.html   (404 words)

  
 Prosser Rebellion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The end of the 18th century saw an increased freedom of movement for America's slaves; the accompanying increased interaction between the fls and whites seemed to indicate that both races were becoming accustomed to their roles of master and servant.
The relaxation of slave controls of the time gave Prosser opportunities to associate with other slaves and gather recruits for his plan.
Gabriel's army, estimated at about 1,000 slaves, gathered six miles outside Richmond on the night of August 30, 1800; they might have succeeded in their initial goals had a violent rainstorm not washed away bridges and flooded the roads.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/prosserrebellion.html   (368 words)

  
 John Brown, trial, slave, revolt
Since Brown had given no advance warning, the slaves were as surprised and confused as their masters.
Brown and his followers were charged with treason against the government of Virginia, conspiracy to induce slaves "to rebel and make insurrection against their masters and owners," and premeditated murder.
He said he was simply trying to free slaves, as he had done the previous year in Missouri.
www.crf-usa.org /brown50th/john_brown.htm   (1726 words)

  
 Axis of Evel Knievel: Happy Stono Rebellion Day
On 9 September, 1739, the largest slave revolt in colonial North American history took place when Jemmy, an Angolan from St. Paul's Parish, South Carolina, led twenty fellow bondsmen in a raid on an ammunition store.
Coupled with South Carolina's recent announcement of the Security Act -- a pre-emptive act requiring all white men to carry firearms to church on Sundays, in anticipation of a slave revolt -- Spain's overtures were sufficient to persuade the enslaved Africans of St. Paul's Parish to fulfill the law's prophecy.
The Stono Rebellion was interrupted abruptly on the afternoon of the 9th, when an irate posse of whites overtook the rebels near the Edisto River.
axisofevelknievel.blogspot.com /2005/09/happy-stono-rebellion-day.html   (228 words)

  
 Untitled Document
They were conscious of the disgust the government showed towards fls and the slave population and they were aware of the punishment they would receive if their battle were to fail.
Early in the morning, after the bell had sounded to announce the beginning of the working day, 40 to 50 slaves of the plantation on Kenepa got together on the square in front of the plantation house and told their owner, van Uytrecht, that they were not willing to work for him anymore.
These bigger slave populations were needed to harvest salt from the salt pans.
www.cca7.org /workshopspages/watamula.html   (3541 words)

  
 Creole Slave Ship Revolt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This summary of the revolt is based on Howard Jones, "The Peculiar Institution and National Honor: The Case of the Creole Slave Revolt," Civil War History, 1975, pp.
This account of the revolt is from The Late Contemplated Insurrection in Charleston, South Carolina, published in New York, 1850.
This introduction by Robin MacDonald to The Heroic Slave written by Frederick Douglass in 1852 argues that Douglass romanticised the leader of the Creole revolt.
history.sandiego.edu /gen/civilwar/03/creole.html   (423 words)

  
 The Amistad Revolt
Reports said that Cuban slaves had revolted and killed the crew of a Spanish ship and were roaming the Atlantic as buccaneers.
The Amistad Revolt 1839: The Slave Uprising Aboard the Spanish Schooner.
Owens, William A. Slave Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad.
usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/amistad   (5567 words)

  
 Black Seminole slave rebellion, toolkit of facts on largest U.S. slave revolt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Tally of plantation slaves in the slave rebellion, with sources and an explanation of how the numbers were derived.
Select quotations from the period confirming the revolt.
Examples of scholarly oversight of the rebellion from the major works on U.S. slavery and slave resistance.
www.johnhorse.com /toolkit   (174 words)

  
 Amistad Slave Revolt Case Documents
In 1839 a Portuguese slave trader purchased a cargo of about 50 kidnapped African natives from a Spaniard involved in the slave trade on the Guinea Coast of West Africa.
Transported to the Caribbean aboard the Portuguese vessel, Tecora, the captives, from the Mendi tribe on the northern border of Nigeria, were not slaves but legally free men who had been illegally enslaved.
The Africans, led by the Mende warrior Singbe-Piéh, named Cinquè by the slave traders, insisted that they be freed and returned to their continent.
paperlessarchives.com /amistad.html   (860 words)

  
 The Slave Revolt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The topic that I chose was The Slave Revolt.
The fact is Nat Turner took sixty slaves with him and went to the Travis house and killed five members from his family.
It was to have no slaves in America and all fls should be treated the same way as whites, and have the same rights too.
www.d118.s-cook.k12.il.us /South/palosbday/slaverev   (178 words)

  
 Archive for Slave Revolt Radio : SF Bay Area Indymedia
An archive of Slave Revolt Radio is now available on the Free Radio Santa Cruz website.
Slave Revolt Radio is a program hosted by Tracy James and Gerald Smith and originally airs on Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1fm
Slave Revolt Radio is broadcast over the air every Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:00+pm, on micropower Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1FM.
www.indybay.org /news/2004/12/1708031_comment.php   (323 words)

  
 Randall Robinson: Honor Haiti, Honor Ourselves
Looking at the rebel slaves of Haiti as African veterans rather than as Haitian plantation workers may well prove to be the key that unlocks the mystery of the success of the largest slave revolt in history."
Domingue's policy of working its slaves to death and then quickly importing replacements from Africa proved to be the ultimate karmic boomerang.
Domingue's African-born slaves not only were not yet broken psychologically, but they were also in possession of significant military training and experience gained on the other side of the Atlantic.
www.counterpunch.org /robinson01012004.html   (2885 words)

  
 RACE VS. CLASS: Hear SLAVE REVOLT RADIO today TUES NOV 1ST 3:00PM -- with TRACEY JAMES! : SF Bay Area Indymedia
The best way to reach the Slave website itself is to just google "Slave Revolt Radio" to get several listings.
SLAVE REVOLT explores how whitness thru the constructed lens of the mass population of white wage servants distorts their views on subjects like affrimitive action, gentrification, and economic/ social dependancy and class, often putting them at odds with the non white slaves.
A focus that's clear from the eyes of the slave that whitness is not only a social construct but a political and economic one.
www.indybay.org /news/2005/11/1779942.php   (577 words)

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