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Hello My BLOGGY PIES. In today's Blog I will be talking about The Berbice 1763 Rebellion.  BERBICE 1763 REBELLION THE BERBICE 1763 REVOLT ALSO KNOWN AS THE "CUFFY REBELLION on  23 February 1763 the enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Berbice revolted. The population of Berbice consisted of roughly 350 Europeans and approximately 5000 enslaved Africans. Almost all of the Europeans fled from their plantations – forty of them were killed. It took more than 10 months to recapture the colony from the enslaved people, during which more than 1800 enslaved persons were killed. THE CAUSES OF THE BERBICE 1763 REBELLION/ CUFFY REBELLION ARE: 1. THE SHORTAGE OF FOOD - A private company named the Berbice Association who ran the colony economized the imports of food. This meant that the plantocracy reduced the spending money on food and did not grow enough provision on the estate. Therefore many slaves were underfed. 2.   THE TERRIBLE TREATMENT AND INJUSTICE BY THE PLANTOCRACY -...

    Jamaica 1831 revolt also know as "Baptiste war" or "Christmas War" Good night my bloggy pies. Apologies for the late blogging. Today I would be discussing the Jamaica 1831 revolt in full details.                   In Jamaica white public opinion was opposed to amelioration towards slave. This was because amelioration were laws that went to the betterment of slaves, meaning that the plantocracy would have to spend more money on slaves but since they viewed their slaves as properties they refused.   Before  the revolt began a slave in montego bay named Samuel sharpe also known as "Sam Sharpe was a baptiste preacher who was literate. He was also nigerian who belonged to the igbo tribe and was a a slave on kensington estate in St. James. Sam sharpe was a driver on the plantation, who drove his master around in what was called buggies or Carriages. With that being the case Sam sharpe had access to newspaper and would over...

 HEY GUYS,ITS YA GIRL QUEEN RICA. Its my fist blog. I just wanna officially welcome   you to my blog page.