In the 1750s, a fugitive slave Ancoma formed a community of runaway slaves in Jamaica. After his assassination, slaves in the colony organized more than a dozen significant conspiracies, including Thackie’s Rebellion in May 1760. During this rebellion, Thackie, a slave overseer on the Frontier plantation in St. Mary’s County, led a group of enslaved Africans in killing their enslavers. The uprising ended with Thackie’s murder and the death of the rebels: they committed suicide. The success of this rebellion is relative because there were no apparent results. The most significant impact of this rebellion was the subsequent formation of a fugitive slave society that was able to reclaim its territory.
Fedon began the rebellion in Grenada on March 2, 1795. With the help of about 100 formerly enslaved people and mulattoes, Fedon fought the French and British planters of the island. Rebel attacks were coordinated against the towns of Grenville and Give. They burned the houses of the British farmers, killing several of them. Despite initial success, however, the British military was able to absorb the uprisings. Fedon’s fate remained unknown; the Crown could not capture him. This rebellion affected territorial policy toward the West Indies and spurred subsequent revolutionary movements.
As the British government attempted to create a Crown colony in Barbados by annexing the island to a confederation with the Navajo Islands, the white Barbadian elite and the Afro-Barbadian workers did not accept it. Their differing reactions to the Confederate debate led to violence in the form of riots in April 1876. The conflict was both a post-emancipation struggle and a constitutional crisis, so the stated demands were not enacted in August of that year. It led to the development of a new constitutional policy, and the Crown became more suspicious of the Caribbean.
Suriland is a fusion of different cultures: the Caribbean, Suriname, and Netherlands. Due to the mass migration from the Caribbean to the Netherlands, driven by a desire to escape from the English Crown, it has readied its traditions in the new place. Amsterdam had a unique position, gaining the trust of the Negro race: this led to the immigrants from Suriname acting more and more on the cultural masses in Europe. Nowadays, the Caribbean culture has been virtually supplanted by the dense cooptation with Suriname and the lack of support for the settlers.