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Hello and welcome to episode 336 of Ben Franklin's World.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

early American past have shaped the present-day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart.

What did it take to stage a successful slave uprising?

What qualities or accomplishments made it slave rebellion successful?

When you look at the history of early America in the early United States, we see enslaved

people occasionally rise up to abolish slavery and fight for their freedom.

The biggest and most successful slave uprising began in August 1791 on the Caribbean island

of San Dome, and that uprising ended with the emergence of an independent and slave-free

Haiti.

Now in the United States, we see a few violent slave uprisings that took place over the

course of the early republic.

A particularly brutal rebellion took place in January 1811 in Louisiana.

Another violent rebellion took place in 1831 in South Hiepton County, Virginia.

Now neither of these rebellions led to the abolishment of slavery, but they did lead to the death

of many enslaved people and their enslavers.

With details from her award-winning book, Surviving South Hampton, African American Women

and Resistance in Nat Turner's community, Vanessa Holden, an associate professor of history

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