2007-02-04 08:16:44 · 6 answers · asked by shauntelp9210 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Spartacus. But probably not the first, just the earliest, best known.
2007-02-04 08:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by comicards 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about Black slave rebellion in the United States or territory that was to become part of the United States?
(1) According to Aptheker, and others, the first documented enslaved African rebellion in the Western Hemisphere, was at the Spanish settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape (in what is now South Carolina) where enslaved Africans rebelled against their conditions in the fall of 1526. The prime source of this information is ~The Spanish Settlements Within the Present Limits of the United States, 1513-1561~ by Woodbury Lowery. Noted historian Peter Wood also mentions this incident (in ~Black Majority~)
If you're talking about documented slave revolts, any time any place, then the earliest I can find is this:
(2) THE SPARTAN EARTHQUAKE OF 464-65 B.C.
Thucydides writes that a single earthquake occurred and places the blame of the ensuing slave revolt on the Messenian helots, whereas Diodorus refers to multiple earthquakes and blames the rebellion largely on the Laconian helots.
Undocumented revolts undoubtedly occurred before that.
2007-02-04 08:55:47 · answer #2 · answered by Peaches 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the Israelites left slavery in Egypt and crossed the Red Sea.
2007-02-04 08:20:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1692
2007-02-04 08:19:14 · answer #4 · answered by Curious 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but it probably occurred when the plantation ran out of fried chicken and watermelon.
2007-02-04 08:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd assume that it would be a biblical account. Can you think of one, huh, can ya, huh?
2007-02-04 08:20:31 · answer #6 · answered by boozer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋