... of the total number of slave revolts vary according to the definition of insurrection. For the two centuries preceding the American Civil War (1861-65), one historian found documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving 10 or more slaves whose aim was personal freedom. Few of these, however, were systematically planned, and most were merely spontaneous and quite short ... was awe-inspiring. Added to this dangerous mixture was the fiery rhetoric of abolitionists, both black and white in some states located in the south, there were counties and cities were...

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