Record of Resistance

in America and France began triggering a global phenomenon of class-related conflicts, America had been the scene of hundreds of rebellions by people held in bondage. Historian Herbert Aptheker counted almost 250 revolts among slaves in what became the United States, often encouraged by slave revolts in the Caribbean and along South America’s Atlantic coast. Harvard historian Vincent Brown catalogued insurrections against the British on Barbados (1676, 1683,