slave insurrection
Frequency: 4.00.2 per million words
a rebellion by enslaved people
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Examples (10)
- In 1822 he planned a slave insurrection in South Carolina.
- The historical records detail several violent slave insurrections in the Caribbean.
- Fear of a slave insurrection led to stricter laws in the antebellum South.
- A widespread slave insurrection fundamentally altered the course of the revolution.
- Historians continue to debate the causes and impacts of that particular slave insurrection.
- The news of the slave insurrection spread quickly through the plantations.
- Despite the harsh reprisals, the spirit of slave insurrection persisted in many regions.
- The novel vividly portrays the desperate courage of those who participated in the slave insurrection.
- Leaders of the slave insurrection sought freedom and justice for their people.
- Any hint of a potential slave insurrection was met with extreme force.