The Demerara rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving between 9,000 and 12,000 slaves that took place in the British colony of Demerara-Essequibo in what is now Guyana. The exact number of how many took part in the uprising is a matter of debate. [1] The rebellion began on 18 August 1823 and lasted for two days. Their goal was full emancipation.

2017年6月25日 · The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than ten thousand enslaved people in the Crown colony of Demerara-Essequibo (now part of Guyana) on the coast of South America. The rebellion took place on August 18, 1823, and lasted two days.

The Demerara revolt of 1823 was by far the largest slave rebellion in British Guianese history and one of the largest revolts in Caribbean history. Only the Haitian Revolution and the Jamaican Rebellion of 1831, or "The Baptist War," had larger numbers of insurgents.

The Demerara uprising had significant consequences. Ever since the successful abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the anti-slavery movement had experienced a collapse in public support. To many, the argument had long been won, even though more than 650,000 people remained enslaved in the Caribbean.

1994年5月19日 · On the night of August 17, 1823, the distinctly African sounds of blaring shell-horns and beating drums signalled the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana).

2023年7月3日 · This year marks the 200 th anniversary of the Insurrection at Demerara in 1823 when enslaved people in Demerara decided to revolt, demanding full emancipation. This blog will discuss the internal and external changes that led to this event, the rebellion as it developed, and the loss of life once it was quelled.

2023年7月7日 · August 2023 marks the bicentenary of one of the most important revolts by enslaved people in the history of the British Empire, taking place in what was then Demerara (later part of British Guiana, now Guyana) on the Caribbean coast of mainland South America in 1823. 1 The uprising came in the aftermath of the victorious Haitian Revolution of ...

2023年5月7日 · To briefly recount, on August 18, 1823, thousands of the enslaved in Guyana rose up and attempted to completely uproot the system of plantation slavery that existed since the 1600s in the colony....

2024年1月24日 · The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was a significant chapter in the fight for emancipation and the abolition of slavery. This uprising, which occurred in the colony of Demerara-Essequibo (now Guyana), involved thousands of enslaved people seeking their freedom. The rebellion was fueled by a mistaken belief that Parliament had passed a law ...

2009年4月20日 · The Demerara Slave Rebellion was one of several revolts that erupted in the Caribbean in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Founded as a Dutch colony in 1746, Demerara stretched for about 25 miles along the Caribbean coast east of the Demerara River (the “East Coast”), between the colonies of Berbice to the east and Essequibo to ...