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| | Largest slave rebellion in U.S. history - Historical essay - Rebellion |
 | | In Florida, slaves also were not executed in reprisal for the rebellion, something which happened after all of the other major U.S. slave revolts and conspiracies, from the New York City revolt of 1712 to Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831 and even John Brown's raid in 1859. | | | Among contemporary academics, oversight of the Black Seminole-led slave rebellion has resulted largely from a lack of awareness of the details of the rebellion, as can be seen in the section of examples of scholarly oversight. | | | The reasons for the oversight are examined more thoroughly in the accompanying essay, "The buried history of the rebellion." This essay attempts to lay out the facts, making the case once and for all that the Black Seminole rebellion was the largest in U.S. history. |
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http://www.johnhorse.com/highlights/essays/largest.htm
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| | Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The people captured on these expeditions were shipped by European traders to the colonies of the New World. | | | Many were brought to the British North American colonies, specifically Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. | | | There are no nations whose economies would be substantially affected by the true abolition of slavery. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
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| | Enslave African Resistance and Revolts |
| | A slave found guilty of conspiracy would lose his/her legs unless the owners requested a lighter sentence. | | | Sharp, of course, felt that he and his fellow enslaved Africans were being denied their freedom and so vowed to get back at the whites and hasten emancipation. | | | The mission was kept secret to prevent the slaves from giving him advance notice of what was to come. |
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http://www.swagga.com/revolts.htm
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| | Douglass, "Heroic Slave" |
| | Whereas Stowe argues that the hope of the black race lay in the church (142) and relegates all skepticism of Christianity to "her secondary black hero," Douglass presents all of this skepticism within his primary hero, Madison Washington (149), whom he portrays as "rebelliously violent and skeptical of the American church" (143). | | | This article provides an historical and political context for Douglass' "The Heroic Slave." The central theme of Douglass' novella is that the slave is a thinking, feeling, intelligent human and as such is entitled to the birthright of inalienable freedom. | | | "The Heroic Slave" is a celebration of black heroism, but according to Yarborough it "was subverted from the outset by the racist, sexist, and elitist assumptions upon which the Angle-American [sic] male ideal was constructed and that so thoroughly permeated the patriarchal structure of slavery" (182). |
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http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/douglass.htm
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| | The History Guy: Slave Rebellions and Uprisings in the U.S. |
| | --This was the first major conspiracy for a possible slave rebellion. | | | One historian (Herbert Aptheker), calculated that over two hundred separate slave revolts and conspiracies took place from the 1600's to the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865. | | | For over two hundred years, Africans were brought against their will to Britain's American colonies and to the new United States of America. |
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http://www.historyguy.com/slave_rebellions_usa.htm
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| | Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases |
| | Ostensibly planned by Vesey, a free black and carpenter, the conspiracy allegedly called on the slaves and free blacks of Charleston and its surrounding countryside to rise up, seize local munitions stores and slaughter the white population before leaving on ships bound for Haiti. | | | Listen to Johnson discuss the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy. | | | "If you're a slave and you hear that [description] and then it doesn't happen, you think it's a conspiracy and it's against you," said Johnson. |
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http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home01/oct01/vesey.html
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| | St. John Slave Rebellion of 1733 |
| | Africans of other ethnic backgrounds, some of whom had been sold into slavery by the Akwamus, did not support the rebellion. | | | Thousands were killed, and many prisoners were taken. | | | From St. John Backtime, "The Raw Truth has Been Reported," Commander Longueville, from a document discovered and in the Colonies section of the French National Archives by Aimery P. Caron and Arnold R. Highfield: |
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http://www.stjohnbeachguide.com/Slave%20Rebellion.htm
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| | RW ONLINE:The Slave Rebellion of General Nat Turner |
| | Slaveowners would later report that no specific incidents drove these men to act and there was no sign that the conspiracy was motivated by desire for revenge against specific slavemasters and overseers. | | | When Nat was 22, a Black freeman named Denmark Vesey organized a conspiracy to seize Charleston, South Carolina, the sixth largest city in the U.S. His organization involved thousands of slaves who stockpiled weapons. | | | The overseers were called upon to point out any slaves whom they distrusted, and if any tried to escape they were shot down." |
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http://rwor.org/a/v19/940-49/945/turner.htm
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| | Telegraph News Hillary Clinton in 'slave owner' jibe |
| | As her supporters know, Mrs Clinton's real problem remains with the conservative heartland where she has to pick up support to have a chance of returning the Clintons to the White House. | | | Her campaign noted that Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, had once used similar language. | | | "Since they [Democrats] think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I'm actually willing to lead the slave rebellion," Mr Gingrich said in 1994. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/19/whill19.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/19/ixworld.html
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| | Slave Revolts Slave Rebellion Slave Insurrection Slave Mutiny Questia.com Online Library |
| | Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 | | | ...commission were part of an abolitionist attempt to end the slave trade and divert the blacks allegiance to the British themselves...advantage of Spains perennial political... | | | History of Black Americans: From the Compromise of 1850 to the End of the Civil War |
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http://www.questia.com/library/sociology-and-anthropology/slave-revolts.jsp
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| | Today in History: September 9 |
| | At least 250 insurrections have been documented; between 1780 and 1864, ninety-one African-Americans were convicted of insurrection in Virginia alone. | | | Among these were Gabriel's Revolt, which began north of Richmond, Virginia, on August 30, 1800, and Vesey's Rebellion, an 1822 conspiracy to incite as many 9000 plantation and urban slaves in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina. | | | Some of those interviewed were born before the Civil War and offer personal memories of that era, while others relate the experiences of their parents and grandparents before, during, and after the Civil War. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep09.html
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| | Haiti The Slave Rebellion of 1791 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ... |
| | According to accounts of the rebellion that have been told through the years, François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture helped plot the uprising, although this claim has never been substantiated. | | | Despite their voodoo-inspired heroism, the ex-slaves fell in large numbers to the colonists' firepower and were forced to withdraw. | | | Among the rebellion's leaders were Boukman, a maroon and voodoo houngan (priest); Georges Biassou, who later made Toussaint his aide; Jean-François, who subsequently commanded forces, along with Biassou and Toussaint, under the Spanish flag; and Jeannot, the bloodthirstiest of them all. |
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http://workmall.com/wfb2001/haiti/haiti_history_the_slave_rebellion_of_1791.html
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| | Slavery in America |
| | Then, investigate your local historical society and/or the local or state archives. | | | Students will also use this to organize their essays. | | | This lesson challenges students to investigate a slave rebellion that happened in close proximity to where they live so they can use resources found at their local library, historical society, or state archives as sources for their search. |
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http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_lp_localrebellions.htm
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| | New book pairs slave-rebellion stories by Douglass, Melville |
| | By all accounts, Washington was an intelligent and formidable leader who, after escaping to Canada, returned to Virginia to find and free his wife. | | | However, Hendrick and his wife, Willene, are doing their part to draw these relative unknowns out of history's shadows. | | | Until then, the American ship, slaves and their stories are "just lost in history," said George Hendrick, an English professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. |
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http://www.news.uiuc.edu/gentips/00/08slave.html
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| | Slave Rebellion |
| | As a result, 37 Negroes were executed and another 30 odd deported, although no overt act of rebellion had occurred (Garraty p333). | | | In August 1791, as a consequence of the French Revolution, the black slaves and mulattoes on Haiti rose in revolt against the whites, and in the period of turmoil that followed, enormous cruelties were practised by both sides. | | | Slave uprisings occurred only rarely, but were considered very dangerous by white Southerners, and perhaps justifiably so. |
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http://sciway3.net/clark/civilwar/rebellion.html
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| | Nat Turner - A Slave Rebellion: Black History Daily |
| | Nat's mother and grandmother had been brought to America from Africa and had a deep hatred of slavery. | | | Turner had hoped this his action would cause a massive slave uprising but only 75 joined his rebellion. | | | Over the next two days and nights, his band killed around 60 white people in Virginia. |
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http://www.blackseek.com/bh/2001/154_NTurner.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood : The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 : Books |
| | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | Though only three whites died during the rebellion, hundreds of slaves were killed or wounded and 33 were executed after summary trial. | | | Missionary John Smith, drawn to Demerara by serendipity, became a convert to the slaves' causes and was blamed for the rebellion; he was sentenced to death, but died in jail. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195106563?v=glance
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| | Slave Rebellion |
| | Those who had been captured were brought to St. Thomas and publicly tortured and executed. | | | The rebellion began after careful planning with a small group of slaves who captured the only fort on the island by killing soldiers (Boyer, 30). | | | Planters on other islands became more fearful of uprisings. |
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http://www.uvm.edu/%7Etmuskus/hst164/Slave%2520Rebellion.html
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| | Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles, First Black Rebels to Beat American Slavery |
| | Explore the epic quest for freedom that changed American history. | | | These maroon warriors, descendants of free blacks and fugitive slaves in the American South, led the largest slave revolt in American history, influenced Abraham Lincoln and the emancipation movement, and were the most successful black freedom fighters in the U.S. prior to the Civil War. | | | The goal is to make an original contribution to U.S. history by documenting, for scholars and general audiences alike, the accomplishments of John Horse and the Black Seminoles. |
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http://www.johnhorse.com
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| | 30. The Beginning of the Berbice Slave Rebellion |
| | Among the prisoners was the wife of the manager of Plantation Bearestyn whom Cuffy kept as his wife. | | | This uprising became known as the Berbice Slave Rebellion. | | | Cuffy had been brought to this plantation ever since he was a child and was trained as a cooper by the owner, Barkey. |
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http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter30.html
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| | Roman Rebellion |
| | Most slaves in Italy were foreigners who had been captured by | | | This dangerous conflict, which the Romans had at first ridiculed and despised as a mere rebellion of gladiators, had now lasted two years. | | | Slaves made up a large percentage of the population of Itay in the first century B.C. Nobody knows exactly what percentage was enslaved, but in rural areas the numbers were probably comparable to those in the slave states of America during the 1850s, where there was one slave for every two free people. |
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http://www.oldnewspublishing.com/spartacus.htm
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| | Slave Rebellion |
| | The rebellion was doomed from the beginning by a lack of discipline among his followers and by the fact that only 75 slaves had rallied to his cause. | | | This was also the case with this rebellion. | | | It is believed that as many as 9000 Blacks, (slaves and freedmen) were involved in the uprising. |
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http://multirace.org/firstday/first31.htm
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| | Henrico County - Recreation and Parks |
| | His objectives were to overtake the Capital and convince Governor James Monroe to support more political, social and economic equality between members of society. | | | Slaves were allowed to travel and meet freely on evenings and weekends. | | | When the success of their plan circulated, other slaves, white artisans, freemen, religious supporters and french sympathizers would join the rebels as they hoisted the white flag of freedom. |
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http://www.co.henrico.va.us/rec/gabriel.htm
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| | Africans in America/Part 1/The Stono Rebellion |
| | Because the innkeeper at the tavern was kind to his slaves, his life was spared. | | | 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. | | | Anyone who didn't comply with the new law by September 29 would be subjected to a fine. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p284.html
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| | Africans in America/Part 3/Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| | The remaining force then met the state and federal troops in final skirmish, in which one slave was killed and many escaped, including Turner. | | | But in the hysterical climate that followed the rebellion, close to 200 black people, many of whom had nothing to do with the rebellion, were murdered by white mobs. | | | After spending the night near some slave cabins, Turner and his men attempted to attack another house, but were repulsed. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html
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| | Prosser Rebellion |
| | His plan called for an attack on Richmond in which the slaves would seize the arsenal and kill all the white people except Quakers, Methodists, and Frenchmen, all of whom Prosser considered "friendly to liberty". | | | Gabriel, also known as Gabriel Prosser, was an intelligent and deeply religious man. He was strongly influenced by the Biblical example of the Jews' flight for freedom as well as the 1790 slave revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti). | | | Fascinating Fact: One of Prosser's followers was quoted as coolly telling his captors: "I would kill a white man as free as eat." |
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http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/prosserrebellion.html
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| | Slave rebellion - |
| | Slave resistance in the antebellum South finally became the focus of historical scholarship in the 1940s, when historian Herbert Aptheker started publishing the first serious scholarly work on the subject. | | | Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by Denmark Vesey, the Roman slave Spartacus, the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish king Ongenþeow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled, and Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against against the British. | | | Slaves were brought to the isthmus from many regions in Africa now in modern day countries like the Congo, Senegal, Guinea, and Mozambique. |
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http://www.grohol.com/psypsych/Slave_revolt
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| | HistoryWiz: Toussaint L'Ouverture |
| | Though born a slave in Saint Dominique, Toussaint learned of Africa from his father, who had been born a free man there. | | | He became known as Toussaint L'Ouverture (the one who finds an opening) and brilliantly led his rag-tag slave army. | | | He was fortunate in having a liberal master who had him trained as a house servant and allowed him to learn to read and write. |
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http://www.historywiz.com/toussaint.htm
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| | HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- Southampton Slave Revolt |
| | This group of 40 (or so) Blacks, led by Nat Turner, terrorized the white population of Southampton County, Virginia and killed 60 whites before the Virginia Militia and local residents killed or captured the insurgents. | | | A number of slave revolt conspiracies were uncovered in the South between 1820 and 1831 but none frightened Southerners as much as Nat Turner's rebellion. | | | An express from the Honorable James Trezevant states that an insurrection had broken out, that several families had been murdered, and that those Negroes were embodied, requiring a considerable military force to subdue them." |
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http://www.historybuff.com/library/refslave.html
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| | Response to a Slave Rebellion - Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| | A few of the captured slaves were later found innocent and set free, but many more were found guilty and executed. | | | Nat Turner was an intelligent and very religious young man. He also became something of a mystery, someone who claimed to have seen visions. | | | In the end, a total of about 60 plantation owners and family members had been killed. |
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http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_35_224.html
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| | iPac2.0 |
| | Slaves -- Virginia -- Southampton County -- Biography. | | | Nat Turner : a slave rebellion in history and memory / edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg. |
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| | NPR : The Many Faces of Nat Turner |
| | Background on Turner, the film, and a video preview. | | | Nat Turner's 1831 "confessions," allegedly dictated while he was in jail shortly before his hanging. | | | An independent film debuting on PBS examines The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron's controversial 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Turner's alleged jailhouse statements and other versions of the insurrection leader's story. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1667325
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| | Nat Turner A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory Table of Contents |
| | However, this first confession of Nat Turner raised the question of whether the slave rebel was an inspired and brilliant religious leader in search of freedom for his people, or a deluded fanatic leading slaves to their doom. | | | And most tellingly, this film unravels the controversy over William Styron's novel, the responses to it, and the enduring dilemma of knowing and representing this most vexing aspect of American history - revolutionary violence by slaves seeking their own freedom. | | | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has been continuously re-told during the years since 1831. |
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http://www.nathanielturner.com/nattunertroublesomeproperty.htm
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Master/Slave) |
| | Joe Sandoval, the Division Manager who issued the memo, told Reuters that his memo was intended as "nothing more than a request" and not an ultimatum or policy change: | | | This material may not be reproduced without permission | | | Sandoval said that he had already rejected a suggestion that the county stop buying all equipment carrying the "master" and "slave" labels and had no intention of enforcing a ban on such terms with suppliers. |
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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
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| | Carlota, leader of the 1843 slave rebellion in Triumvirato, Matanzas |
| | She was one of the 3 leaders of the rebellion. | | | Her name was later given to Cuba's 1980's operation Black Carlota in Southern Africa, whcih culminated in the battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the defeat of the South African army in pitch battle. | | | Carlota, a slave woman, took up the machete in 1843 to lead a slave uprising at the Triumvirato sugar mill in Matanzas Province and was killed. |
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http://www.afrocubaweb.com/carlota.htm
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| | Salon.com News I invaded the White House press corps - NP |
| | On July 11, the story of Karl Rove's involvement in the Valerie Plame case broke, and the hounds got loose in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House and whomped on the press secretary. | | | A photo composite of White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan during his daily briefing. | | | I had front row seats at the media's Great Slave Rebellion over Karl Rove. |
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/27/briefing/index.html
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| | Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America |
| | The Amistad Revolt was a shipboard uprising off the coast of Cuba that carried itself, inadvertently but fatefully, to the United States--where the Amistad Captives set off an intense legal, political, and popular debate over the slave trade, slavery, race, Africa, and ultimately America itself. | | | Mystic Seaport's site explores the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842 and how we make history of it. | | | For a detailed narrative of the revolt, jump directly to Discovery, or follow the Timelines. |
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http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/welcome.html
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