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The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
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1733 slave insurrection on St. John
Revolt in the Danish West Indies
The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John or the Slave Uprising of 1733, was a slave insurrection started on Sankt Jan in the Danish West Indies on November 23, 1733, when 150 African slaves from Akwamu, in present-day Ghana, revolted against the owners and managers of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Danish West Indies
Former Danish colony in the Caribbean
The Danish West Indies or Danish Virgin Islands or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with 83 square kilometres (32 sq mi), Saint John with 49 square kilometres (19 sq mi), Saint Croix with 220 square kilometres (85…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)