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Significant Slave Rebellions

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I think you made some important points here and in addition to that the colonial era witnessed two significant slave rebellions. In 1712, some twenty-five slaves armed themselves with guns and clubs and set fire to houses on the northern edge of New York City. They killed the first nine whites who arrived on the scene and then were killed or captured by soldiers. In the aftermath, eighteen participants were executed in the most brutal manner (individuals were burned alive, broken on the wheel, and subjected to other tortures). The event set a pattern for subsequent uprisings–the violence of the retribution far exceeded the mayhem committed by the rebelling slaves. Thirty-one slaves and four whites were executed as a result of rumors of a major

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