Revolutions & Uprisings of Enslaved Africans/Blacks

• Santa Maria, Columbia, 1530
• Afro-Peruvian Slave Revolts, Lima, Peru throughout 1540s
• Tofeme, Colombia, 1545
• Bayano, also known as Ballano or Vaino led rebellions, Darien Province, Panama, 1552
• Uprisings in Vilcabamba, Peru, 1602
• Benkos Bioho and the Cimarrones Rebellion, Cartegena, Columbia circa 1603
• Gaspar Yanga (Nyanga) Resistance, Veracruz, Mexico 1570 (successfully took over Spanish town in 1609)
• Plot to Revolt in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1790
• Revolt at the Palenque, Castillo in Popayán, Columbia, 1732
• Stono Rebellion, South Carolina, 1739
• Quilombos of Brazil (runaway slave settlements) were numerous. The most famous is that of Palmares
• The New York City Conspiracy of 1741
• Cimarones of Carabayllo, Peru, 1763-64
• Haitian Revolution, Bwa Kayiman, 1791
• Aguadilla Uprising, Puerto Rico, 1795
• Gabriel Prosser’s Conspiracy, South Carolina, 1800
• German Coast Uprising, Louisiana 1811
• Insurrection at Ycuamandiyú, Paraguay, 1812
• Fisherfolk at the Harbor Rebellion, Bahia, Brazil, 1814
• Denmark Vessey Revolt, Virginia, 1822
• Demerara-Berbice insurrection, British Guyana 1823
• Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Virginia, 1831
• Christmas Insurrection, Jamaica, 1831
• Malê Muslim revolt (during Ramadan), Bahia, Brazil, 1835
• Black Seminole revolt (led by John Horse), Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana 1836
• La Escalera Underground Rebel Movement, Cuba 1841-44
• Enslaved walk off plantations in Guadeloupe and Martinique, 1848
• Slave insurrection, St. Croix, 1848
• Grito de Lares, Puerto Rico, 1868
• Revolt Against the British Colonization efforts of Mashonaland and Matebeleland, Zimbabwe 1896