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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 Revolt ... Brown's efforts have shown that the slave insurrection in Jamaica in 1760-61 was a carefully planned affair and not a spontaneous, ...
[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 ...
Martin Delany's serialized novel, Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–61), referred to Vesey and Nat Turner, as well as having a protagonist who plans a large-scale slave insurrection. [ 46 ] Denmark Vesey is the name and basis for a character in Orson Scott Card 's The Tales of Alvin Maker , an alternate history series of books set in the ...
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 commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
Since early 1700s, concerns of slave insurrection led colonial officials to seek help from Native Americans. Attempts were made many times with different outcomes. The Haudenosaunee had long been asked by colonial officials to return the fugitive Blacks that they had heard were among them, but without result; the Iroquois stated many times that ...
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