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The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the Province of New York, of 23 Black slaves. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than 70 black people were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed.
1712 New York Slave Revolt ... Brown's efforts have shown that the slave insurrection in Jamaica in 1760-61 was a carefully planned affair and not a spontaneous, ...
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
[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 ...
The Dutch Slave Coast (Dutch: Slavenkust) referred to the trading posts of the Dutch West India Company on the Slave Coast, which lie in contemporary Ghana, Benin, Togo and Nigeria. Initially the Dutch shipped slaves to Dutch Brazil, and during the second half of the 17th century they had a controlling interest in the trade to the Spanish ...
Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period.
1712: A slave insurrection in New York City causes significant property damage and results in severe punishment or execution of the rebels. [12] 1719: Non-slaveholding farmers in Virginia persuade the Virginia General Assembly to discuss a prohibition of slavery or a ban on importing slaves.
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.”