And the possibilities of such servile insurrections were by no means remote.

There was a constant danger of servile insurrection, which had more than once seriously threatened the republic.

As most Southern states had enacted draconian measures for "servile insurrection" after Nat Turner's Rebellion, the likely sentence was a capital one.

They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection?

So reported The New-York Tribune, which sketched out a few details of a plot to surprise Southerners "not with the phantom, but the reality of servile insurrection."

True, they could loot the economies of conquered worlds, but unless they wanted servile insurrection, there was a limit to how badly they could wreck their subject economies.

Such an "accursed doctrine" as "servile insurrection," he wrote Nelly on Sept. 25, made it "very doubtful whether I shall remain in the service after the rebels have left this vicinity."

Having fought alongside runaways on the streets of Boston and written essays about servile insurrection, he believed that the enslaved must play an active role in the destruction of the peculiar institution.

I would sooner make some small accommodations now, give the Negro some stake in the South-which is, after all, his country, too-than face, perhaps, servile insurrection in ten years' time, or twenty.

A resolution later adopted by the Confederate Congress provided that all "negroes or mulattoes," slave or free, taken in arms should be tried for inciting servile insurrection and be subject to the death penalty.

One AP dispatch quoted The Richmond Whig newspaper as saying Lincoln's proclamation aiming to eventually free of slaves in states in rebellion was tantamount to "ordering servile insurrection in the Confederate States."

Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon fulminated that these articles were intended "to subvert by violence the social system and domestic relations of the negro slaves in the Confederacy and to add to the calamities of war a servile insurrection."

They warned fellow slaveowners that Abraham Lincoln and the "Black Republican" government sought "to light up the fires of a servile insurrection, and to give your dwellings to the torch of the incendiary, and your wives and children to the knives of assassins."

Spooner also "conspir[ed] with John Brown to promote a servile insurrection in the South", and participated in an aborted plot to free Brown after his capture following the failed raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia (Harper's Ferry is now part of the state of West Virginia).

I think it may even have had something to do with that slave revolt.

We haven't had a really good execution since the slave revolt.

Throughout the years, there were many slave revolts in the island.

It was the only successful slave revolt in the history of mankind.

A successful slave revolt won Haiti its independence in 1804.

For one thing, it was history's only successful large-scale slave revolt.

Otherwise, he feared that “his people” would free themselves in a slave revolt.

At the time the legislature thought he had come there to plot a slave revolt.

I think it was when he raised that wave to stop the slave revolt from happening.

In the summer of 1791, Haiti witnessed the first successful slave revolt.

The property that Shell bought was the site of a major slave revolt in 1811.

For decades there had been widespread fear of slave revolts.

Could this be the slave revolt that every master feared but none spoke of?

Apparently, there has been a slave revolt on the Relka.

The slave revolt had threatened the security of the labor force and owners' profits.

For some, the only nation that owes its existence to a successful slave revolt is a lost cause.

A year later, the first successful slave revolt in history started, which would lead eventually to the founding of Haiti.

Haiti declared its independence in 1804 and became the only nation born out of a successful slave revolt.

As a girl, Baker listened to her grandmother tell stories about slave revolts.

Among Southern whites, the prospect of a slave revolt was a constant concern.

But after being continuously ignored, he organises a slave revolt.

It was he who finally suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus.

It was a building worthy of a country born after a slave revolt against its French colonial rulers.

In 1791, what today is Haiti became the scene of the largest slave revolt in history.

Which gladiator led a two-year slave revolt against the Romans?

Were his friends out on the walls turning back the slave rebellion without him?

Georgetown was the site of a significant slave rebellion in 1823.

What a slave rebellion needs most of all, right away, is the thing it's least likely to get: a breathing space.

The images of the great slave rebellion were still painfully fresh in his mind, even after four years.

Haiti was founded in 1804, after the world's first successful slave rebellion.

Land owners also faced problems with slave rebellions at times.

The plantation itself was known to be active prior to the 1733 slave rebellion.

I think that Amistad was the best film ever made about a slave rebellion.

You are the ones who took to the walls to defend Rome from the slave rebellion.

There were several major slave rebellions in the 1820s.

If you take a look at the document here, it gives an insight into the first successful slave rebellion we know of.

There was some kind of miracle child whose birth sparked the slave rebellion.

Why not announce that you started the slave rebellion?

There never again was such a large-scale slave rebellion.

Panama also has an extensive history of slave rebellions going back to the 16th century.

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

I'm conspiring with the Wizards to create a slave rebellion.

It was the largest and most successful slave rebellion in United States history.

There had been occasional slave rebellions throughout the southern colonies in the past.

In 1793, a slave rebellion broke out, which made the upper classes turn to the British and ask them to occupy the island.

The city did not last long, however; several years after its establishment, a slave rebellion burned it to the ground, killing anyone who stayed behind.

This 1526 incident is the first documented slave rebellion in North America.

The slave rebellion has been defeated, and the prisoners are told they'll be spared if they identify their leader.

Something big is happening, something more important than us escaping or a slave rebellion, and I want no part of it.

Just talk of a slave rebellion had left Trillius' citizens badly frightened.