slave uprisings
Captive labor rebellions
Slave uprisings were organized rebellions by enslaved people against their captors and the institution of slavery.
These insurrections ranged from small-scale resistance on individual plantations to large coordinated revolts: The Haitian slave uprising of 1791 led to the first successful revolution by enslaved people.
Such rebellions shaped slaveholding societies' laws, fears, and brutal systems of control.
- HaitiCaribbean island nation
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- colonial mastersForeign rulers of territories
- SpartacusRebel gladiator of antiquity
- armed revoltViolent rebellion against authority
Nat Turner · rebellion · Haitian Revolution · liberation · night raids · sugar plantation · maroons · underground resistance · colonialism · French · colony · Solidarity · breaking chains · resistance · slavery · insurrection · emancipation · defiance
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, enslavement, bondage, chattel
- Caribbean historyJamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad
- colonial slaverychattel slavery, African slaves, plantation system, bondage, servitude
- Guiana slaverySuriname, French Guiana, Demerara, maroons, plantation economy
- Afro-CubanAfro-Cuban, Yoruba, Santeria, orishas, rumba
slave uprisingssubmission
Yielding to another's will
docility · acquiescence · subservience · accommodation · resignation
slave uprisingsslave patrols
Organized catchers of runaways
slave codes · slave patrol · fugitive slave laws · martial law · lynching
slave uprisingsslave trade
Commerce in human beings
Middle Passage · Atlantic slave trade · human trafficking · enslavement · bondage