5 FAMOUS AMERICAN SLAVE REVOLTS
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro Did African-American Slaves Rebel? by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Originally posted on The Root One of the most pernicious allegations made against the African-American people was that our slave ancestors were either exceptionally “docile” or “content and loyal,” thus explaining their purported failure to rebel extensively. Some even compare enslaved Americans to their brothers and sisters in Brazil, Cuba, Suriname and Haiti, the last of whom de