Military Conflict-Slave Rebellions
The Malê Rebellion in Brazil (1835)
The Malê Rebellion in Brazil, also known as The Great Revolt, was a Muslim slave rebellion in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil,...
San Miguel de Gualdape Slave Rebellion (1526)
San Miguel de Gualdape is a former Spanish colony founded in 1526 by Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon. It was the...
Tacky’s War (1760-1761)
Tacky’s War, also known as Tacky’s Rebellion, was an uprising among Jamaica Akan enslaved people from Ghana that occurred in...
The Creole Case (1841)
The Creole Case was the result of an American slave revolt in November 1841 on board the Creole, a ship involved in the United States...
The Baptist War (1831-1832)
The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilized as many as sixty thousand...
Demerara Rebellion of 1823
The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than ten thousand enslaved people in the Crown colony of...
Gaspar Yanga (c. 1545- ?)
Known as the Primer Libertador de America or “first liberator of the Americas,” Gaspar Yanga led one of colonial Mexico’s...
