Resistance/Rebellion
Tacky’s War (1760-1761)
Tacky’s War, also known as Tacky’s Rebellion, was an uprising among Jamaica Akan enslaved people from Ghana that occurred in...
Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803)
Toussaint L’Ouverture was a former slave who rose to become the leader of the only successful slave revolt in modern history known...
The Amistad Mutiny, 1839
The Amistad Mutiny occurred on the Spanish schooner La Amistad on July 2, 1839. The incident began In February 1839...
The Tryal Slave Ship Rebellion, 1805
The Tryal Rebellion of 1805 is a little known account of a shipboard slave uprising in the South Pacific off...
Battle of Lake Okeechobee (1837)
On Christmas Day, 1837, during the Second Seminole War, the Africans and Native Americans comprising Florida’s Seminole Nation defeated a...
Henry Davis Green (1827-1911)
Henry Davis Green was an anti-slavery activist (abolitionist) who was a participant in the Christiana Resistance (also known as the...
Sherrard Lewis Leary (1835-1859)
Lewis Leary was one of several Black men who were killed during John Brown’s raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal...
John Anthony Copeland Jr. (1836-1859)
John Anthony Copeland Jr. was born free in Raleigh, North Carolina, on August 15, 1834, to John Anthony Copeland Sr.,...
Harpers Ferry Raid, 1859
On October 16, 1859, in the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) John Brown, an ardent abolitionist, and...
