Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American ...

In this way they were preparing for the most far-reaching slave revolt ever planned in U.S. history. They also amassed weapons and began hammering swords out of scythes and molding bullets.

Although it is little known, the German Coast Uprising in an area near New Orleans was the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States. The story is well told in “American Uprising ...

What exactly triggered the Stono Rebellion is not clear. Many slaves knew that small groups of runaways had made their way from South Carolina to Florida, where they had been given freedom and land.

Why a plaque celebrating one man's role in the deadly suppression of a slave rebellion in Jamaica came to be on the wall of a Dorset church is not entirely clear. But the memorial stone marking ...

Then, in August 1791, a massive slave insurrection began in the northern plain of the colony. It became the largest and most successful slave revolt in history, leading to the abolition of slavery in ...

29. Plaskett did not respond to requests for comment, but the plaque, her legislation reads, should “include information regarding important facts about the slave rebellion that began on St. John in ...

However, when news of the revolution spread to the French colony of Saint-Domingue, known today as Haiti, slaves revolted violently, burning plantations to the ground and executing any Frenchman ...

October 3, 2023 A monument to the uprising has been erected on the site of the Kenepa plantation. Photo: Charles Hoffman via Wikipedia The leader of a slave uprising on the island of Curacao is being ...