Tag: Revolts

The slave revolts or First and Second Servile Wars in Sicily during the 130s BC and again in 104 BC were widespread and brutal. Sicily had become a vital agricultural colony for the Roman Republic following the Punic Wars. As such, many Romans and Italians owned property there and used ...

Most students will never learn about enslaved people's uprisings, and as a result, many Americans don't know much about the early beginnings of the Black Liberation Movement. Perhaps, public schools omit stories of uprisings because it cuts into the central myth White colonists perpetua...