The role of the enslaved in the ‘Fedon Rebellion’ of 1795

Title: The role of the enslaved in the ‘Fedon Rebellion’ of 1795
Creator: Candlin, Kit
Relation: Slavery and Abolition Vol. 39, Issue 4, p. 685-707
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2018.1464623
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: This article argues that the slave component of Grenada’s Fedon Rebellion of 1795 has been somewhat overlooked in the scholarship. In reality, the Fedon Rebellion was an enormous servile revolt that cost the lives of some 7000 slaves over the course of its 18-month duration. This article argues that there were three distinct elements to the slaves caught up in this revolt: those that joined with the revolutionaries, those that remained loyal and those that sided with neither. This article also explores the varying source base for this conflict to argue that though partisan, the few sources that remain can tell us a great deal about the war and the slaves who took part.
Subject: slavery; enslavement; rebellions; revolutions
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442641
Identifier: uon:41748
Identifier: ISSN:0144-039X
Language: eng
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