Chesapeake rebellion
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title:
Chesapeake rebellion
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The Chesapeake rebellion of 1730 was the largest slave rebellion of the colonial period in North America. Believing that Virginian planters had disregarded a royal edict from King George II which freed slaves, two hundred slaves gathered in Princess Anne County, Virginia, in October, electing captains and demanding that Governor Gooch honor the royal edict. White planters stopped these meetings, arresting some slaves and forcing others to flee. Although hundreds of slaves fled to the Great Disma
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Slave rebellion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_rebellion
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2024-04-07T19:30:36Z
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