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Wana ukumbi,
Utumwa ni kosa kubwa la kibinadamu. Anayemkamata mwanadamu mwenzie na kumuuza kama bidhaa ni dhalimu bila kujali ana taswira gani katika jamii. Kiujumla watu WEUSI ndio kihistoria walioonja madhila makubwa sana ya dhahma hii ya UTUMWA. Idadi ya binadamu waliopotea kupitia shughuli ya utumwa kwa bara la Africa haifahamiki vizuri ila kila mtu anajua ni MAKUMI ya MAMILIONI ya binadamu waliokufa njiani kabla ya kufika huko walikonunuliwa. Lakini historia ya bidii za Watumwa weusi kujikomboa na dhulma hii ya utumwa haifundishwi sana. Badala yake zipo bidii za kujenga dhana kama vile utumwa haukuwako. Au dhana ya basi ulikuwako ndio lakini mbona madhara yake yalikuwa kiduchuuuuu sana. Hapa naweka matukio machache maarufu jinsi wabantu hawa walivyojitahidi kuondosha minyonyoro shingoni mwao.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
One of the most famous slave revolts in American history came in 1831 when Nat Turner led a bloody uprising in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was deeply religious, and planned his rebellion after he experienced prophetic visions ordering him to gain his freedom by force. On August 21, 1831, Turner and his accomplices killed his master’s family as they lay sleeping. From there, the small band of about 70 slaves moved from house to house, eventually killing over 50 whites with clubs, knives and muskets. It took a militia force to put down the rebellion, and Turner and 55 other slaves were captured and later executed by the state.
Hysteria swept through the region in the aftermath of Nat Turner’s revolt, and as many as 200 slaves were eventually killed by white mobs and militias. The rebellion also triggered a series of oppressive restrictions on slave populations. Citing Turner’s intelligence as a major factor in his revolt, several states would pass laws making it illegal to teach blacks to read or write.
The Zanj Rebellion
Long before African slaves were ever brought to North America, they incited a rebellion in the Middle East and went head to head with an empire. The insurrection began in 869 A.D. when Zanj slaves—an Arabic term used to describe East Africans—joined with an Arab revolutionary named Ali bin Muhammad and rose up against the Abbasid Caliphate. Spurred on by promises of land and freedom, the Zanj began conducting night raids on nearby cities in order to seize supplies and liberate fellow slaves.
What began as a humble revolt slowly grew into a full-scale revolution that lasted 15 years. Slaves, Bedouins and serfs all joined with the rebels, who at their height supposedly numbered over 500,000. These revolutionaries even amassed a navy and controlled as many as six fortified cities in modern-day Iraq. The Zanj Rebellion would finally end in the early 880s after the Abbasid army mobilized and conquered the rebel capital. Ali bin Muhammad was killed in the battle, but many of the Zanj were spared and were even invited to join the Abbasid military.
The Haitian Revolution
The most successful slave rebellion in history, the Haitian Revolution began as a slave revolt and ended with the founding of an independent state. The main insurrection started in 1791 in the valuable French colony of Saint-Domingue. Inspired in part by the egalitarian philosophy of the French Revolution, black slaves launched an organized rebellion, killing thousands of whites and burning sugar plantations en route to gaining control of the northern regions of Saint-Domingue.
The unrest would continue until February 1794, when the French government officially abolished slavery in all its territories. The famed rebel general Toussaint Louverture then joined forces with French Republicans and by 1801 had established himself as governor of the island. But when Napoleon Bonaparte’s imperial forces captured Louverture in 1802 and attempted to reinstate slavery, the former slaves took up arms once again. Led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in 1803 they defeated French forces at the Battle of Vertières. The following year the former slaves declared their independence and established the island as the new republic of Haiti. News of the first successful rebellion—the only slave uprising in history to end with the foundation of a new country—went on to inspire countless other revolts throughout the United States and the Caribbean
chanzo:7 Famous Slave Revolts - History Lists
Utumwa ni kosa kubwa la kibinadamu. Anayemkamata mwanadamu mwenzie na kumuuza kama bidhaa ni dhalimu bila kujali ana taswira gani katika jamii. Kiujumla watu WEUSI ndio kihistoria walioonja madhila makubwa sana ya dhahma hii ya UTUMWA. Idadi ya binadamu waliopotea kupitia shughuli ya utumwa kwa bara la Africa haifahamiki vizuri ila kila mtu anajua ni MAKUMI ya MAMILIONI ya binadamu waliokufa njiani kabla ya kufika huko walikonunuliwa. Lakini historia ya bidii za Watumwa weusi kujikomboa na dhulma hii ya utumwa haifundishwi sana. Badala yake zipo bidii za kujenga dhana kama vile utumwa haukuwako. Au dhana ya basi ulikuwako ndio lakini mbona madhara yake yalikuwa kiduchuuuuu sana. Hapa naweka matukio machache maarufu jinsi wabantu hawa walivyojitahidi kuondosha minyonyoro shingoni mwao.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
One of the most famous slave revolts in American history came in 1831 when Nat Turner led a bloody uprising in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner was deeply religious, and planned his rebellion after he experienced prophetic visions ordering him to gain his freedom by force. On August 21, 1831, Turner and his accomplices killed his master’s family as they lay sleeping. From there, the small band of about 70 slaves moved from house to house, eventually killing over 50 whites with clubs, knives and muskets. It took a militia force to put down the rebellion, and Turner and 55 other slaves were captured and later executed by the state.
Hysteria swept through the region in the aftermath of Nat Turner’s revolt, and as many as 200 slaves were eventually killed by white mobs and militias. The rebellion also triggered a series of oppressive restrictions on slave populations. Citing Turner’s intelligence as a major factor in his revolt, several states would pass laws making it illegal to teach blacks to read or write.
The Zanj Rebellion
Long before African slaves were ever brought to North America, they incited a rebellion in the Middle East and went head to head with an empire. The insurrection began in 869 A.D. when Zanj slaves—an Arabic term used to describe East Africans—joined with an Arab revolutionary named Ali bin Muhammad and rose up against the Abbasid Caliphate. Spurred on by promises of land and freedom, the Zanj began conducting night raids on nearby cities in order to seize supplies and liberate fellow slaves.
What began as a humble revolt slowly grew into a full-scale revolution that lasted 15 years. Slaves, Bedouins and serfs all joined with the rebels, who at their height supposedly numbered over 500,000. These revolutionaries even amassed a navy and controlled as many as six fortified cities in modern-day Iraq. The Zanj Rebellion would finally end in the early 880s after the Abbasid army mobilized and conquered the rebel capital. Ali bin Muhammad was killed in the battle, but many of the Zanj were spared and were even invited to join the Abbasid military.
The Haitian Revolution
The most successful slave rebellion in history, the Haitian Revolution began as a slave revolt and ended with the founding of an independent state. The main insurrection started in 1791 in the valuable French colony of Saint-Domingue. Inspired in part by the egalitarian philosophy of the French Revolution, black slaves launched an organized rebellion, killing thousands of whites and burning sugar plantations en route to gaining control of the northern regions of Saint-Domingue.
The unrest would continue until February 1794, when the French government officially abolished slavery in all its territories. The famed rebel general Toussaint Louverture then joined forces with French Republicans and by 1801 had established himself as governor of the island. But when Napoleon Bonaparte’s imperial forces captured Louverture in 1802 and attempted to reinstate slavery, the former slaves took up arms once again. Led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in 1803 they defeated French forces at the Battle of Vertières. The following year the former slaves declared their independence and established the island as the new republic of Haiti. News of the first successful rebellion—the only slave uprising in history to end with the foundation of a new country—went on to inspire countless other revolts throughout the United States and the Caribbean
chanzo:7 Famous Slave Revolts - History Lists
