Uprisings and Rebellions

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 Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition

Uprisings and Rebellions

Armed struggles against the oppressive institutions of slavery, colonialism, and apartheid.

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Uprisings and rebellions in Latin America: See Berbice Slave Rebellion; Maroonage in the Americas; Muslim Uprisings in Bahia, Brazil; Rethinking Palmares: Slave Rebellions in Colonial Brazil: An Interpretation; Role of Slaves in Abolition and Emancipation in Latin America and the Caribbean; Slave Rebellions in Latin America and the Caribbean; Zumbi.

Specific rebellions and black rebel leaders in the Caribbean: See Bussa's Rebellion; Cacos; Conspiración de la Escalera; Cudjoe; Dessalines, Jean-Jacques; Haitian Revolution; Maceo y Grajales, Antonio; Makandal; Morant Bay Rebellion; Nanny; Péralte, Charlemagne Masséna; Sharpe, Samuel; Toussaint Louverture, François Dominique;

Uprisings and rebellions in the United States: See Amistad Mutiny; Christiana Revolt of 1852; Cinque, Joseph; Creole Affair; Denmark Vesey Conspiracy; Gabriel Prosser Conspiracy; New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741; New York Slave Rebellion of 1712; Slave Rebellions in the United States; Stono Rebellion; Turner, Nat.

Resistance and revolts in Africa: See Antiapartheid Movement; Maji-Maji Revolt; Mau Mau Rebellion; Sharpeville, South Africa.

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