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Slave rebellion - North America

Numerous slave rebellions, and insurrections took place in North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. There is documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving ten or more slaves. Three of the best known are the revolts by Gabriel in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner at Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

Slave resistance in the antebellum South finally became the focus of historical scholarship in the 1940s, when historian Herbert Aptheker started publishing the first serious scholarly work on the subject. Aptheker stressed how the rebellion was rooted in the exploitative conditions of the Southern slave system. He traversed libraries and archives throughout the South, managing to uncover roughly 250 similar instances, though none of which reached the scale of the great Nat Turner uprising.

Slave rebellion - List of North American slave revolts

• New York Revolt of 1712 (1712)
• Stono Rebellion (1739)
• New York Slave Insurrection of 1741
• Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion (1800)
• Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion, led by Charles Deslandes (1811)
• George Boxley Rebellion (1815)
• Fort Blount Revolt (1816)
• Denmark Vesey's Uprising (1822)
• Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
• Amistad Seizure (1839)
• John Brown leads the Pottawatomie massacre (1856)
• John Brown raids Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (1859)Note:Harper's Ferry was not a slave rebellion because no actual slaves were involved.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "North America", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki