In 1718 the Danish west India and guinea Company settled the Island of St. John, in the Carribean, now part of the U.S. virgin Islands . It rapidly became an a sugar island, with 1,00 slaves on 109 plantations. In 1733 the slaves rebelled, killd most of the Whites, captured the only Fort, and burned most of the plantations and proceeded to occupy the island for the next six months. The rebllion was led by the slaves from ther ecently defeated Akwamu Empire. They defeated reinforcements from the nearby St. Thomas, as well aas the British from St. Kitts and tortola. In OTL they were finally defeated by 228 French soldiers fom Martinique led by Chevalier de Longueville. An excellent (if long) web page about it is here: http://www.stjohnbeachguide.com/Slave Rebellion.htm
So what if either the French did not come or they were defeated? If perhaps one of their ships had fallen pray to something, then that would have severely shrunk the force avalible to defeat the rebels.
So what if either the French did not come or they were defeated? If perhaps one of their ships had fallen pray to something, then that would have severely shrunk the force avalible to defeat the rebels.