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The colony required slave owners who wanted to free their slaves to pay a tax of £200 per person, then an amount much higher than the cost of a slave. In 1715 Governor Robert Hunter argued in London before the Lords of Trade that manumission and the chance for a slave to inherit part of a master's wealth was important to maintain in New York ...
1739 - Stono Rebellion, Slave rebellion., September, Province of South Carolina; 1741 - New York Slave Insurrection of 1741, New York City, New York; 1742 - Philadelphia Election Riot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1746 - New Jersey Tenant Riots, New Jersey; 1747 - Knowles Riot, Boston, Massachusetts (anti-impressment) 1763 - Pontiac's War
1712 New York Slave ... shown that the slave insurrection in Jamaica in 1760-61 was a ... from slavery and established free communities in the ...
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Several local slave rebellions took place during the 17th and 18th centuries: Gloucester County, Virginia Revolt (1663); [165] New York Slave Revolt of 1712; Stono Rebellion (1739); and New York Slave Insurrection of 1741. [166]
Slave being burned at the stake in N.Y.C. after the 1741 slave insurrection. As in other slaveholding societies, the city was swept by periodic fears of slave revolt. Incidents were misinterpreted under such conditions. In what was called the New York Conspiracy of 1741, city officials believed a revolt had started. Over weeks, they arrested ...
A Vermont artist has lost his legal battle to force a law school to display a mural that portrays enslaved Black people in a style critics have called “cartoonish” and “racist.”
[3] Slave rebellions in the United States were small and diffuse compared with those in other slave economies in part due to "the conditions that tipped the balance of power against southern slaves—their numerical disadvantage, their creole composition, their dispersal in relatively small units among resident whites—were precisely the same ...