Successful Slave Rebellion?

There were a lot of slave revolts/rebellions and such during the period before the civil war. I was wondering, if there was a possibility of any of these becoming successful.
 
Successful in what way? The creation of an independent black nation, no. The spreading of the revolt beyond the county boundaries or nearby plantations, no.
 

Philip

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In the US? The only thing (especially after Haiti) a slave revolt was likely to succeed in doing is killing vast numbers of slaves.

There was one -- Haiti.
Ah, but Haiti is not the US. Two factors greatly favored the slaves in Haiti -- the Atlantic Ocean and the French Revolution. Neither of these will benefit the slaves in the US.
 
In the US? The only thing (especially after Haiti) a slave revolt was likely to succeed in doing is killing vast numbers of slaves.


Ah, but Haiti is not the US. Two factors greatly favored the slaves in Haiti -- the Atlantic Ocean and the French Revolution. Neither of these will benefit the slaves in the US.

3) the incredible preponderance of blacks/slaves on the island.
 
There were a lot of slave revolts/rebellions and such during the period before the civil war. I was wondering, if there was a possibility of any of these becoming successful.


As stated already, it depends on what you would call successful. Is there any factors that can be tweaked from John Brown's sorry adventure? Something that would have spread the arms and conflict?
 
Maybe...if...

I could see something positive if you had a PoD involving Dred Scott or some similar case going in favor of Scott, with the interpretation of the laws being that if a slave makes his/her way to a free state or territory, then he/she is free. (by the way, this is a major change, and there may not be any reasonable way to do it on Scott, but I'm not able to lay out a logical sequence right now) If you start with that, then perhaps a successful rebellion is one with the limited objective of bringing a large number of escaping slaves to free territory.
 
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