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For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back
In April, the Cuban government eventually smashed the rebellion. In Jamaica, enslaved people followed suit. Samuel Sharpe, an enslaved Baptist lay deacon, called a general strike on Christmas Day ...
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How enslaved people used the holiday season to resist and rebel
In Cuba, the Aponte Rebellion of 1811 was planned between Christmas and Epiphany, January 6, by enslaved people and free people of color inspired by the Haitian Revolution. Though suppressed ...