slave insurrection

  1. JustinianTheGrand

    DBWI: What if the Slave Revolution of 1859 didnt happen?

    The Slave revolution started when John Brown raided the federal armory at harper's ferry. Due to sheer luck he avoided the federal troops and managed to get the arms to the slaves in the surrounding fields and formed them into an army. This eventually led to a revolt of most of the slaves in the...
  2. AHC: More successful slave rebellions

    Over the ages, there have been many, many slave rebellions. The vast majority ended in failure. Your challenge is to have more slave revolts succeed, whether by having a slave uprising that failed IOTL be successful, or by introducing a new slave insurrection that succeeds.
  3. WI Haiti has to pay no reparations?

    What if France never forces absurd punitive reparations on Haiti for its slave revolution? Haiti would still have lots of troubles and posible develop a cashcrop monoculture like other caribbean nations but its less likely to devastate their forests and nature and by extension the only...
  4. Nat Turner and John Brown

    These are probably the two most famous leaders of a slave rebellion in US history; Turner in 1831, Brown in 1859, both in Virginia. Both leader's rebellions lasted only a few days before being brutally crushed; Turner and his followers by white militias, Brown by US Marines and local militia...
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