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RESISTANCE AND REVOLT |
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The
abolition of slavery in the Caribbean was the
result of a number of factors in and outside
of the area. Besides economic prosperity for
the individual slaveholder and his country,
the brutality of slavery gave rise to many revolts.
The European colonial powers had to continually
provide more military assistance to the plantation
owners, which meant a considerable financial
drain. Additionally, there were plantation owners
who wished to have more freedom in how they
conducted their business, and some wanted total
independence from the colonial powers.
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| 1522 |
Slave
revolt on HISPANIOLA |
| 1527 |
Slave
revolt on PUERTO RICO |
| 1733 |
Slave
revolt on ST.JOHN, DANISH WEST INDIES |
| 1773 |
On
the Belize River in Belize, enslaved Africans
took over five plantations and killed six white
men. There were about fifty armed Africans with
sixteen Musquets, Cutlasses, etc. involved in
this rebellion. |
| 1789 |
Slaves
fight for emancipation on MARTINIQUE |
| 1791 |
Slave
uprising on HAITI. An estimated 350,000 people
died in this revolution before Haiti was declared
a free republic on January 1, 1804. |
| 1816
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On the island of Barbados an enslaved African
by the name of Bussa, led a revolt over the British
rulers. |
| 1820 |
In
May the enslaved Africans of the Belize and Sibun
rivers a region in Belize, revolted after very
harsh treatment. This revolt was led by two enslaved
Africans name Will and Sharper. This revolt lasted
for about one month. |
| 1823 |
There
was an enslaved African rebellion on the East
Coast of the Demerara in the country of Guyana. |
| 1831 |
The
Baptist Revolt, Jamaica |
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BREAKING THE CHAINS Slave Resistance and Revolt
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The Afrocentric Experience provides information
on Black Writers, Kwanzaa, African Names, the
island state of St.Kitts Nevis and Much, Much
More.
www.swagga.com/revolts.htm
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Africans on Caribbean Plantations By Joyce Toney
Ph.D. Very often we forget either, deliberately
or unwittingly, the road that our ancestors have
trod and the many travails that
www.kalamumagazine.com/africans_on_caribbean_plantations.htm
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Syllabus Conections to this Theme |
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Secondary
Attainment Targets Level 2 |
Lesson
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This unit will be divided into two parts. The
first will encourage students to construct a history
of women of African slave decent in the countries
of Brazil, Haiti, and Jamaica. Secondly, they
will write a paper in which they defend the data
they have developed.
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Through a series of stories, journal entries,
role playing and interpreting previous events
in history, students will be given the chance
to learn how the African arrived in Haiti, Jamaica
and Brazil.
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An on-line simulation to demonstrate the impact
of the slave trade on the size and structure of
population on the African continent and in the
diaspora.
http://www.whc.neu.edu/afrintro.htm
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