And now when from the same quarter of the land whence in past years have arisen political controversies based upon this question, there has come up this tempest of rebellion, having the same ...

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 ...

Drimachus led a slave revolt on Chios, ruling a rogue stronghold before betrayal. Organized resistance like that of Spartacus ...

Though suppressed, the rebellion symbolized the enduring fight against slavery. Jamaica’s Christmas Rebellion, or Baptist War, began on Christmas Day 1831, led by Samuel Sharpe, an enslaved ...

The former property of a slave-ship captain, Vesey had first-hand experience of slavery's brutality. He carefully planned the revolt for four years, with the help of Gullah Jack, a conjurer from ...

The effort he made in getting upon paper his terrible string of resolutions against rebel Slavery, might, if properly directed, have put a whole regiment into the field against rebel slaveholders ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

This date is significant, as it suggests that Saulos and Gadalias were conducting their subversive activities on the eve of a ...

“If slavery was wrong, then those who rose up against it were not.” The 1795 revolt was inspired by the declaration of the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands in January that year, an offshoot of the ...

The University of Cambridge is facing strong criticism from academics over an exhibition that claims Professor Stephen ...

and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching, when the first should be last and the last should be first. In 1791, revolt broke out in the French ...