slave revolts
Captive mass resistance
Slave revolts are uprisings by enslaved people against those who hold them in bondage.
These range from small-scale resistance on individual plantations to large organized rebellions like the Haitian Revolution or Nat Turner's Rebellion.
The term encompasses both successful insurrections and those brutally suppressed: Fear of slave revolts shaped Southern law for generations.
- Haitian RevolutionSuccessful slave rebellion, 1790s
- slaveryOwnership of people
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- SpartacusRebel gladiator of antiquity
- armed resistanceOrganized violent opposition
Nat Turner · Underground Railroad · freedom · freedom fighters · abolitionism · maroons · sugar plantations · cotton fields · runaway slaves · labor exploitation · insurrection · forced labor · triangular trade · mutiny · machete · rebellion · defiance · Civil War
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, enslavement, bondage, chattel
- Atlantic tradetriangle trade, trade winds, Atlantic crossings, transatlantic routes, shipping routes
- Caribbean historyJamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad
- RebellionsAmerican Revolution, Whiskey Rebellion, Texas Revolution, Mexican Revolution
- Caribbean Slaveryplantation, sugar plantations, chattel slavery, abolitionists, Jamaica
- colonial slaverychattel slavery, African slaves, plantation system, bondage, servitude
slave revoltssubmission
Yielding to another's will
acquiescence · docility · resignation · accommodation · obedience
slave revoltsslave patrols
Organized catchers of runaways
master control · slave codes · martial law · fugitive slave laws · overseers
slave revoltsslave trade
Commerce in human beings
enslavement · slave auctions · Middle Passage · fugitive slave laws · human trafficking