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Slave rebellions

Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. There is documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving ten more slves. Three of the best know in the states are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800 Demark vasey in charleston south carolina in 1822 and nat turner in southampton county virginia in 1831. The largest slave revolt in america history however took place outside of new orleans in 1811 the 1811 germen coast usprising was suppressend by volunteer militians and a detachment of the united states army and heads of over sixty slaves were put on pike along the levee slaves resistance in the antebellum south finally bcame the focus of historical sholarship in the 1940 when historian Herbert Aptheker satarted publishing the frist serious scholarly work on the subject Aptheker stressed how the rebellions was rooted in the exploitative condition of the southern slave system. he traversed libraries and archive throughout the south mangeing to uncover roughtly 250 similar instances though none of them reachend the scale of the nat turner uprising.John Brown had alredy fought agaist slavery forces in kansas of severl years when he decided to led a raid on harpers ferry Virginia west

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