From chattel to citizen: The transition from slavery to freedom in Richmond, Virginia

Rebellion or riot?: black Loyalist food laws in Sierra Leone

“…26 In some works, only after emancipation does crowd action become 'political unrest' or 'riot'. 27 Other scholars, by contrast, have used terms like 'rebellion', 'riot', and 'uprising' interchangeably regardless of whether dissenters were enslaved or free. 28 It must also be admitted that eighteenth-century people did not always distinguish between riot and rebellion.…”