Timeline of Slave Revolts
north american slave uprisings
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1526 San Miguel de Guadalpe - (Spanish Florida, victorious)
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1548–58, 1579–82 Bayano Wars - (Panama, New Spain, suppressed)
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c. 1570 Gaspar Yanga's Revolt - (Veracruz, New Spain, victorious)
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1712 New York Slave Revolt - (British Province of New York, suppressed)
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1730 First Maroon War - (British Jamaica, victorious)
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1733 St. John Slave Revolt - (Danish Saint John, suppressed)
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1739 Stono Rebellion - (British Province of South Carolina, suppressed)
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1741 New York Conspiracy - (Province of New York, suppressed)
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1760 Tacky's War - (British Jamaica, suppressed)
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1787 Abaco Slave Revolt - (British Bahamas, suppressed)
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1791 Mina Conspiracy - (Louisiana (New Spain), suppressed)
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1795 Pointe Coupée Conspiracy - (Louisiana (New Spain), suppressed)
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1791–1804 Haitian Revolution - (French Saint-Domingue, victorious)
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1800 Gabriel's Rebellion - (Virginia, suppressed)
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1803 Igbo Landing - (St. Simons Island, Georgia, suppressed)
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1805 Chatham Manor - (Virginia, suppressed)
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1811 German Coast Uprising - (Territory of Orleans, suppressed)
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1815 George Boxley - (Virginia, suppressed)
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1816 Bussa's Rebellion - (British Barbados, suppressed)
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1822 Denmark Vesey - (South Carolina, suppressed)
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1831 Nat Turner's rebellion - (Virginia, suppressed)
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1831–1832 Baptist War - (British Jamaica, suppressed)
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1839 Amistad, ship rebellion - (Off the Cuban coast, victorious)
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1841 Creole case, ship rebellion - (Off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious)
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1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation - (Indian Territory, suppressed)
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1859 John Brown's Raid
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