Racial Conflict – Resistance/Rebellion
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,...
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 was the last major uprising of enslaved blacks and white indentured servants in Colonial Virginia. One...
Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663)
The Gloucester County Conspiracy also known as the Servant’s Plot or Birkenhead’s Rebellion, took place in Virginia in 1663. The...
The 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt
The 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt occurred in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola during...
Little George Ship Revolt (1730)
The Little George Ship Revolt took place on the British ship Little George in June 1730. The little-known revolt was...
Dedan Kimathi (1920-1957)
Dedan Kimathi was a rebel field marshal fighting the British colonial authorities in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion of...
Carlotta Lucumi, “La Negra Carlota” (?- 1843)
Carlota Lucumi, a kidnapped African woman, is known as one of the leaders of the slave rebellion at the Triunvirato...
Breffu (?-1734)
Breffu, an African woman from what is now the nation of Ghana, who was enslaved in the Danish West Indies,...
Stono Rebellion (1739)
On Sunday, September 9th, 1739 the British colony of South Carolina was shaken by a slave uprising that culminated with the death of sixty people. Led...
