The 1733 St. John Insurrection
Almost sixty years before the Haitian revolution, a group of West African Atlantians (enslaved people) took control of the island of St. John and held...
Tag : 18th Century
Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a free black who masterminded what would have been the largest Maafa (slavery) uprising in American history. A skilled...
New York Maafa Uprising of 1712
In the early 1700s, New York had one of the largest enslaved populations of any of England’s stolen territories. One out of every five New...