Top Five Slave Revolts

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    Slave Revolts

  • Stono Rebellion

    This rebellion takes place in South Carolina.The date was September 9th, 1739. A large group of slaves were marching down a road with banners that say “Liberty”, as they were also shouting the same word.. This large group was led by an Angolan man named Jemmy or from other sources, his name was Cato. The group traveled south, and the farther they went, the more slaves they recruited on their journey.

  • Stono's Rebellion pt. 2

    The leader brought the marching slaves from South Carolina to Florida, the one of few states where African Americans could buy land. The groups beginning was not pleasant but savage. On the first day alone, they had disrupted many homes and killed most whites that lived in them. In my understanding, slaves got together and outnumbered a master, then let his slaves free and even forced some of them to follow them from the long journey to buy land.

  • Stono's Rebellion pt. 3

    The influence for this act was truly based on the anger slaves had against their master. This act had set a way for other rebellions that would soon come.

  • The New York Conspiracy

    The stono rebellion was an inspiration on this slave revolt of 1741. In 1739 an event called the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina occurred. This was just the beginning of more acts to come as the ferocious as the event called The New York Conspiracy. This takes place in New York City, 1741. The colonists were afraid of their jobs being taken by the African Americans. It is said that the tension between the slaves and colonists hit a peak.

  • The New York Conspiracy pt. 2

    New Yorkers soon feared the prescience of a slave uprising. The white New Yorkers set fire in spite of their fears. In early march, one of the first revolts was the destruction of Fort George. After the fire of Fort George, even more fires were started, leaving nearly 200 people arrested for committing these acts. About 20 from 200 were white men. This was always a curious time for historians, wondering why some people did this, why certain people were judged for this act, and others weren't.

  • Gabriel's Conspiracy

    On the 30th of August,1800, a slave named Gabriel who was owned by Thomas Prosser led an act that influenced slave revolts that occurred in the Antebellum time period. For on the 30th of August, a heavy rainstorm occurred, which foiled the plot set by Gabriel to set up an army by recruiting several months ahead of time. His plan was to seize the Capitol Square in Richmond and taking hostage of the Governor James Monroe. there was careful and many recruitments to make Gabriel’s plan foolproof.

  • Gabriel's Conspiracy pt. 2

    This was one. Of the most planned out events in slave revolt history and easily the most far-reaching. Although all the planning that had occurred, two different slaves from two different plantations had out of nervousness, told their masters of the plot. The Governor Monroe was alerted and Gabriel and his partner had disappeared to a place safe from prosecutors.

  • Gabriel's Conspiracy pt. 3

    After their disappearance, many slaves were tried, judged in court, executed, and even given immeasurable rewards if they knew anyone further than where Gabriel or his partner went.

  • German Coast Uprising

    In 1811, just along the German Coast in Louisiana, which is just above New Orleans on the mississippi, a Slave revolt occurred. It is said that this slave revolt was the largest African Uprise during the Antebellum period.The German coast was a settlement in Louisiana from the Germans. One of the main leaders was Charles Deslondes, a free black man that originated in Haiti.

  • German Coast Uprising pt. 2

    During this revolt, close to 500 enclaves Africans were armed with pikes, hoes, axes, and a few firearms marched through the city of New Orleans. They also waved their flag and beat drums during the march. On the way of the march, the enslaved Africans destroyed plantations, land, animals, and fought against people with the weapons they had.

  • German Coast Uprising pt 3

    This was revolutionary and easily one of the major slave revolts that helped shape future rebellions. About 68 people were killed, although only two of the 68 were whites. About 16 of the 68 were executed and another 17 were presumed dead or escaped.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Nat Turner was a slave that led a rebellion that was failed in Virginia.this attempt has become a reference to the justification of the Civil War. Nat Turner was an African American man that was one of the first men to ever read or write. His life and growing up was very harsh, and the time he had with books he did not take for granted. While he was growing up he quoted.. " I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have been-yet such was the confidence of the negroes in the neighborhood.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion pt. 2

    Although it was not common, Nat was a firm believer in god. When Nat was freed, him and other recently-freed slaves rebelled and killed 55 people in the community. It was said by Nat himself that those acts were caused because of an act of Karma and Revenge, because the first victim was his previous master. The status quo was that the slave should listen to the white and there was no back talk.

  • Citations

    • Weinstein Allen, Gatell Otto Frank freedom and crisis. Random House, Inc 1981 pg 332-347
    • Baker, Kyle Nat Turner. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2008 pg 89,92,115,129
    • Witch hunt in New York: The 1741 Rebellion. PBS. 1998
    • The New York Conspiracy gilderlehrman. Daniel Horsmanden. 2009

  • Citations pt. 2

    • The New-York Conspiracy Horsmanden, Daniel. The New York Conspiracy, or, A history of the Negro plot, with the journal of the proceedings against conspirators at new-York in the years 1741-2 southwick and Pelsue, no. 3. 1810 Retrieved from Library Of Congress
    • Louisiana’s African slave revolt of 1811. Workers.org Abayomi Azikiwe
    • Charles Deslondes Revolt 1811 slaverebellion.org The Louisiana Gazette and New Orleans Daily Advertiser Thursday, January 10. 1811

  • Citations pt. 3

    • Gabriel's conspiracy “death or liberty” lva.virginia.gov
    • Stono Rebellion (1739). Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670s through the Stono Rebellion. Sutherland, Claudia
    • The Stono Rebellion. PBS. 1998
    • The Legacy of the Stono Rebellion. Counterpunch. 2014

  • Citations pt. 4

    • Gabriel's Conspiracy. PBS. 1998
    • Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel’s Conspiracy by Michael L. Nicholls (review) muse.jhu.edu. 2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
    • Nat Turner’s Rebellion. PBS 1998