Slave rebellion and resistance in the United States

[2] According to Herbert Aptheker, "there were few phases of ante-bellum Southern life and history that were not in some way influenced by the fear of, or the actual outbreak of, militant concerted slave action.

[5][6] Those from 1607, which marked the founding of the first settlement [7] to 1776 the beginning of the United States include: Historians in the 20th century identified 250 to 311 slave uprisings in U.S. and colonial history.

[15] Those after 1776 include: There are four known mutinies on vessels involved in the coastwise slave trade: Decatur (1826), Governor Strong (1826), Lafayette (1829) from Norfolk to New Orleans,[21] and the Creole (1841).

Knowledge of the Bible allowed for enslaved women to gain social capital and become influential members of their communities by leading prayer meetings.

In the years immediately prior to the American Civil War, collective escape actions called stampedes became increasingly common.

"[42] Some slaves would escape only to come back a short time later to take a break from their labor and disrupt the means of production of the plantations, this practice is known as petit marronage.

[44] The Great Dismal Swamp located in Virginia and North Carolina, was one prominent place where these slaves would go for this marronage, along with other long-term refugees.

[4] Today the swamp is seen as a place of resistance,[47] where enslaved people could share in their cultural, agricultural and artisan knowledge, make their own economy and have their own freedom.