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Demerara rebellion of 1823, the Glossary

The Demerara rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving between 9,000 and 12,000 enslaved people that took place in the British colony of Demerara-Essequibo in what is now Guyana.^[1]

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Anti-Slavery Society (1823–1838)

The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, founded in 1823 and known as the London Anti-Slavery Society during 1838 before ceasing to exist in that year, was commonly referred to as the Anti-Slavery Society.

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Baptist War

The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. Demerara rebellion of 1823 and Baptist War are 19th-century rebellions.

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Benjamin D'Urban

Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin D'Urban (16 February 1777 – 25 May 1849) was a British general and colonial administrator, who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the Cape Colony (now in South Africa).

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Bentinck family

The Bentinck family is a prominent family belonging to Dutch, German and British nobility.

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Berbice

Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 and 1815 a colony of the Dutch state.

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Berbice Rebellion

The Berbice Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Guyana that began on 23 February 1763Cleve McD. Demerara rebellion of 1823 and Berbice Rebellion are African diaspora in Guyana, slave rebellions in South America, slavery in Guyana and Wars involving Guyana.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Capture of Demerara and Essequibo

The capture of Demerara and Essequibo was a French military expedition carried out in January 1782 as part of the American Revolutionary War. Demerara rebellion of 1823 and capture of Demerara and Essequibo are Demerara.

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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834.

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Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde

Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, (20 October 1792– 14 August 1863), was a British Army officer.

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Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

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Creole peoples

Creole peoples may refer to various ethnic groups around the world.

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Demerara

Demerara (Demerary) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. Demerara rebellion of 1823 and Demerara are slavery in Guyana.

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Demerara-Essequibo

The Colony of Demerara-Essequibo was created on 28 April 1812, when the British combined the colonies of Demerara and Essequibo into the colony of Demerara-Essequibo.

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Demerara-Mahaica

Demerara-Mahaica (Region 4) is a region of Guyana, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Mahaica-Berbice to the east, the region of Upper Demerara-Berbice to the south and the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara to the west.

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Dutch West India Company

The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Westindische Compagnie) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors, formally known as GWC (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie; Chartered West India Company).

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Essequibo (colony)

Essequibo (Kolonie Essequebo) was a Dutch colony in the Guianas and later a county on the Essequibo River in the Guiana region on the north coast of South America.

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Fowell Buxton

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786Olwyn Mary Blouet, "Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, first baronet (1786–1845)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2010. – 19 February 1845), was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.

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Free people of color

In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.

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George Burder

George Burder (May 25, 1752 O.S.May 29, 1832) was an English Nonconformist divine.

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George Canning

George Canning (11 April 17708 August 1827) was a British Tory statesman.

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Georgetown, Guyana

Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana.

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Guyana

Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.

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Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. Demerara rebellion of 1823 and Haitian Revolution are 19th-century rebellions and history of sugar.

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Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, (22 May 176227 July 1834) was a High Tory, High Church Pittite.

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Jack Gladstone

Jack Gladstone was an enslaved Guianese man who led the Demerara rebellion of 1823, one of the large slave rebellions in the British Empire.

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James Cropper (abolitionist)

James Cropper (1773–1840) was an English businessman and philanthropist, known as an abolitionist who made a major contribution to the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833.

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John Murray (colonial administrator)

General John Murray (– 4 May 1824) was an Irish-born British Army officer and colonial administrator in British North America and South America.

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John Smith (missionary)

John Smith (27 June 1790 – 6 February 1824) was an English missionary and abolitionist whose experiences in the British West Indies attracted the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.

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London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams.

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Manumission

Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners.

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Martial law

Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers.

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Multiracial people

The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.

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Negro

In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage.

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Quamina

Quamina Gladstone (c. 1778 – 16 September 1823), most often referred to simply as Quamina, was a Guyanese slave from Africa and father of Jack Gladstone. Demerara rebellion of 1823 and Quamina are Demerara.

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Robertson Gladstone

Robertson Gladstone, (15 November 1805 – 23 September 1875) was an English merchant and politician.

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Royal Scots Fusiliers

The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) which was later itself merged with the Royal Scots, King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) to form a new large regiment, the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean.

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Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet

Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, planter and Tory politician best known for being the father of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

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Slave Trade Act 1807

The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire. Demerara rebellion of 1823 and slave Trade Act 1807 are history of sugar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demerara_rebellion_of_1823

Also known as 1823 Demerara Revolt, 1823 slave rebellion, Demerara Rebellion, Demerara Revolt, Demevara Slave Revolt.

Demerara rebellion of 1823, the Glossary

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See also

1823 in South America

1823 in the British Empire

19th century in British Guiana

African diaspora in Guyana

August 1823 events

Conflicts in 1823

Demerara

Slave rebellions in South America

Slavery in Guyana

Wars involving Guyana

References