Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded
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Is the Bomba With Us or Against Us?
The rebels take over five or six plantations in the heart of the colony. They arm themselves, and then they spread their rebellion up and down the river as fast as they canof orse. In each case, is the bomba with us or against us? If he's with tem then they they get him and the men of fighting age to come with hem. If he's against them, they fight him. And after couple of days of being at fort nassa in the middle of the colony, they realize, we're going to be cut off. And that's when they set fire to the fort.
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