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Slave rebellions and resistance were means of opposing the system of chattel slavery in the United States. There were many ways that most slaves would...

Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August...

A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...

Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth...

Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total...

Theatre in Washington, D.C. List of slaves Slavery in the United States Slave rebellion and resistance in the United States Breen, Patrick H. (December 7,...

In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was...

Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. ——, ed. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Greenwood...

Anti-literacy laws in many slave states before and during the American Civil War affected slaves, freedmen, and in some cases all people of color. Some...

The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during...

Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not...

out in every phase of the slave trade to resisting marches to the slave holding stations, resistance at the slave coast, and resistance on slave ships...

government from slaves can be seen in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. Occurring in Virginia, the rebellion saw European indentured servants and African people...

Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before...

1799 and 1800. It was the third of three tax-related rebellions in the 18th century United States, the earlier two being Shays' Rebellion (central and western...

The largest sugar plantations and concentrations of slaves were in the north of the islands, and whites lived in fear of slave rebellion. Even by the...

and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police slaves, especially those who escaped...

United States v. Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board...

abolitionism Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves Slavery in the District of Columbia Treatment of slaves in the United States Polk Taylor,...

in the First Spanish Republic. 1873–74: The Cantonal rebellion in the First Spanish Republic. 1873: The Khivan slave uprising against slavery in the Khanate...