America's Long Struggle against Slavery Episode 9, Slave Insurrections in the 18th Century Episode 9, Slave Insurrections in the 18th Century.

Streaming video - 2020

Although there may have been several hundred slave uprisings in British North America and the United States, most of them were minor, or possibly even imagined by paranoid slave masters. Here, delve into the Stono Rebellion of 1739, which was the only significant armed challenge to slaveholders' supremacy on the mainland before the 19th century.