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in 1729 a revolt broke out in Cuba, followed by another in 1731. in this rebellion, the enslaved Africans in copper mines of Santiago took up arms and proclaimed their freedom.
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About the same time that Cudjoe had the British on the run, an insurrection was brewing in st. john. A proud and defiant group of Africans in the danish virgin islands demonstrated their courage in 1733.
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the maroons of Suriname fought with similar determination against the European enslaves. in 1650, the English established sugar and tobacco plantations on the west bank of the Suriname river, and founded the settlement now known as Paramaribo.
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the Haitian revolution was the most significant. Haiti, at the time of the revolution, was called saint Dominique and was the first nation in Americas to eliminate slavery.
