Slave revolts and conspiracies in seventeenth-century Barbados

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ID4767559
AuthorsJerome S Handler (corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume56
Issue1-2
Pages5-42
Publication date1982-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1382-2373 • E-ISSN: 2213-4360
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/13822373-90002108
OpenAlexW2078234130
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited11

For the somewhat more than two centuries that constituted the slave period in Barbados, the island experienced only one actual slave uprising. This erupted on the night of Easter Sunday on April 14, 1 8 1 6, but it lasted no more than a day or two. Prior to the 1 8 1 6 uprising, the last recorded serious alarm of Barbados's whites concerning the possibility of an insurrection occurred in late 1 70 1 . During the latter half of the 1 7th century, however, white fears of possible rebellion were common, several serious alarms occurred, and in 1675 and 1692 major insurrectionary plots were discovered before the plans could be realized. Some or most of these plots and alleged plots are often noted in modern works of scholarship treating the early history of the British West Indies or its slave revolts, but they are usually only briefly mentioned or, at best, only cursorily described. Moreover, with occasional major exceptions, scholars who have written at length about slave resistance and rebellion in the British Caribbean have tended to emphasize actual uprisings, rather than aborted plots or conspiracies, and the 17th century has generally

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