The rebellion against French control was ultimately succession ... fierce resistance to being captured and sold into a life of slavery. There are several notable cases where enslaved Africans ...

During the reign of Emperor Hadrian, two Jewish outlaws stood trial for a series of crimes including the freeing of slaves without paying the required fees and inciting rebellion against the Roman ...

By then word of the rebellion had gotten out to ... but in a close vote decided to retain slavery and to support a repressive policy against black people, slave and free.

The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against ... symapthy with slavery by ...