#slaverevolts — Public Fediverse posts

“The more women onboard a slave ship, the more likely a revolt” - Rebecca Hall

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The forgotten women of slave revolts https://africasacountry.com/2025/03/the-forgotten-women-of-slave-revolts/

Women oftentimes led the charge in rebellions on slave ships. They were often underestimated by their oppressors, being placed near the weaponry, as male slave traders didn’t fear resistance from women and children on board. Despite this, women chose strength above all.

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"#JeanPfaelzer (Prof. Emerita, University of Delaware) describes the untold history of #slavery, #SlaveRevolts, and resistance in #California, based on her award-winning book #CaliforniaASlaveState"

https://soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s08e04_pfaelzer_california-a

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Whatever Nikki Haley wants to claim, southern states did indeed secede over slavery. It would seem to follow from this that northern states fought to end slavery, but this is absolutely not true. At the time there were some northern abolitionist politicians, but nationwide abolition wasn't on the mainstream agenda in the 1850s. Lincoln's 1860 election precipitated secession, but he was no abolitionist.

The immediate issue was the expansion of slavery into newly admitted territories, which Lincoln opposed for economic reasons. Like all capitalists, slaveowners needed to expand their reach in order to survive and thrive, and at least since the 1820s they'd struggled to bring new slave states into the union and Lincoln's election threatened their ability to do this.* This is why one of the confederacy's major policy goals immediately after secession was the imperial conquest of parts of the Caribbean and Latin America in order to increase their slave territory.

Northern states didn't start out fighing to end slavery. Northern finance and industry made huge profits from slavery. They eventually realized that they had to end it, but only because their hands were forced by circumstances and strategic considerations, not least of which was the immediate widespread ongoing slave revolt the war inspired.

So while it's essential to remember that the confederacy seceded over slavery, the North didn't oppose secession to free slaves. Like most modern wars the American Civil War is most fruitfully seen as a dispute between factions of the ruling class over the most sustainable ways to exploit labor. It resulted in abolition mostly due to the determination of the slaves themselves, who forced that goal on the federal government.

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* Slaveowners had many reasons to push for the expansion of slavery in addition to capital's ongoing need for growth. Another major one was that the North's faster population growth threatened to undermine the disproportionate political power the South enjoyed due to the fact that each slave counted as 3/5 of a free man for the purpose of determining representation.

#Slavery #AmericanCivilWar #Secession #StatesRights #Capitalism #SlaveRevolts #NikkiHaley

https://archive.org/details/black-rebellion-in-barbados

Black Rebellion In Barbados: The Struggle Against Slavery, 1627-1838 by Hilary Beckles

Topics
#Barbados, #Bajan, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slaverebellions, #slaveuprisings, #slaverevolts, #revolt, #rebellion, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #abolition, #frontiersocieties, #creolization, #creole, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #britishempire, #slavetrade, #laborhistory, #counterinsurgency

"This year (1984) marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formal abolition of slavery in the English-speaking Caribbean and this work is intended to commemorate the occasion.

https://archive.org/details/africanguyanese

Themes in African-Guyanese History by Winston F. McGowan; James G. Rose; David A. Granger; Alvin O. Thompson; Brian L. Moore; Carl A. Braithwaite; Kimani S. Nehusi; Hazel M. Woolford; Clive Y. Thomas

Topics
#Guyana, #Essequibo, #Berbice, #britishcolonialism, #dutchcolonialism, #history, #Demerara, #Demerary, #BritishGuiana, #DemeraraEssequibo, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #colonialism, #Caribbean, #LatinAmerica, #slavetrade, #slaverevolts

“This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of the African-Guyanese people from the time of their arrival in what were then the Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Berbice in the first half of the seventeenth century, to the present day. Most African-Guyanese today are descendants of enslaved Africans who were victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade – the forced migration of millions of Africans, largely from West Africa to the Americas, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.”

https://archive.org/details/revolt-of-african-slaves-in-iraq

The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th Century by Alexandre Popovic; Léon King; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Topics
#Zanj, #slaverevolts, #history, #Iraq, #ZanjRebellion, #AbbasidCaliphate, #ThawratalZanj, #زَنْج‎, #زنجي, #Basra, #Zanjrevolt, #antiblackness, #blackchattelslavery, #slavery, #imperialism, #guerrillawarfare, #antiblackracism

translation; originally published in french in 1976