1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation information
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1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt
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1712 New York Slave Revolt
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1739 Stono Rebellion
(British Province of South Carolina, suppressed)
1741 New York Conspiracy
(British Province of New York, suppressed)
1760–61 Tacky's Revolt
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1787 Abaco Slave Revolt
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1791 Mina Conspiracy
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1831–32 Baptist War
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1839 Amistad, ship rebellion
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1841 Creole case, ship rebellion
(off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious)
1842 slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation
(Indian Territory, suppressed)
1843–44 Ladder Conspiracy
(Spanish Cuba, suppressed)
1859 John Brown's raid
(Virginia, suppressed)
Notable leaders
Carolta
Charles Deslondes
Denmark Vesey
François Mackandal
Gabriel Prosser
Gaspar Yanga
Jean Saint Malo
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
John Brown
Joseph Cinqué
Madison Washington
Marcos Xiorro
Maria
Nanny of the Maroons
Nat Turner
Toussaint Louverture
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The 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation was the largest escape of a group of slaves to occur in the Cherokee Nation, in what was then Indian Territory. The slave revolt started on November 15, 1842, when a group of 20 African-Americans enslaved by the Cherokee escaped and tried to reach Mexico, where slavery had been abolished in 1829. Along their way south, they were joined by 15 slaves escaping from the Creek Nation in Indian Territory.
The fugitives met with two slave catchers taking a family of eight slave captives back to the Choctaw Nation. The fugitives killed the hunters and allowed the family to join their party. Although an Indian party had captured and killed some of the slaves near the beginning of their flight, the Cherokee sought reinforcements. They raised an armed group of more than 100 of their and Choctaw warriors to pursue and capture the fugitives. Five slaves were later executed for killing the two slave catchers.
What has been described as "the most spectacular act of rebellion against slavery" among the Cherokee, the 1842 event inspired subsequent slave rebellions in the Indian Territory.[1] But, in the aftermath of this escape, the Cherokee Nation passed stricter slave codes, expelled freedmen from the territory, and established a 'rescue' (slave-catching) company to try to prevent additional losses. The slaves were not African Americans but were from other tribes that were decimated by slavery and were relabeled by whites as Slaves of Africa because of their dark skin. The Europeans used skin color to divide.
^Tiya Miles, Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, University of California Press, 2005, pp. 170–73
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