Then, in February, 1831, there was an eclipse of the sun ... By then word of the rebellion had gotten out to the whites; confronted by a group of militia, the rebels scattered, and Turner's ...

For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance. It was a brief period when they were offered better food and rest by slave owners, ...

22-24, 1831, in Southampton County ... such beguiling interest because when he was captured, in the wake of the rebellion and his 10 weeks of hiding, the nearly starved rebel sat for more than ...

What exactly triggered the Stono Rebellion is not clear. Many slaves knew that small groups of runaways had made their way from South Carolina to Florida, where they had been given freedom and land.

The Christmas Rebellion of 1831, led by Sharpe exposed colonial brutality, united 60,000 enslaved Jamaicans, and accelerated the British Empire’s path to abolishing slavery Sam Sharpe is revered ...