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Joseph Cinqué
Joseph Cinqué, leader of the Amistad revolt.
slave rebellions
Also known as: slave revolts
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- United States
- insurrection
- slavery in the United States
slave rebellions, in the history of the Americas, periodic acts of violent resistance by Black enslaved people during nearly three centuries of chattel slavery. Such resistance signified continual deep-rooted discontent with the condition of bondage and, in some places, such as the United States, resulted in ever-more-stringent mechanisms for social control and repression in slaveholding areas. In other places, however, the rebellions sometimes contributed to a growing belief on the part of colonial authorities that the institution of slavery was becoming untenable. In the United States, the myth of the contented slave was essential to the preservation of the South’s ...(100 of 1341 words)