slave rebellions

Also known as: slave revolts

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slave rebellions, in the history of the Americas, periodic acts of violent resistance by Black enslaved people during nearly three centuries of chattel slavery. Such resistance signified continual deep-rooted discontent with the condition of bondage and, in some places, such as the United States, resulted in ever-more-stringent mechanisms for social control and repression in slaveholding areas. In other places, however, the rebellions sometimes contributed to a growing belief on the part of colonial authorities that...

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