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Topic: Bussa's Rebellion

Bussa's Rebellion

Years: 1816 - 1816

Bussa's Rebellion (April 14–16, 1816) is the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history.

Several hundred slaves rise in rebellion under the leadership of the African-born slave Bussa; they are defeated by British forces.Bussa's Rebellion is the first of three large-scale slave rebellions in the British West Indies that shake public faith in slavery in the years leading up to emancipation.

It is followed by the large-scale rebellion in Demerara in 1823 and by an even larger rebellion in Jamaica in 1831–32.

Collectively these are often referred to as the "late slave rebellions".

"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."

— George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1906)