All 5 Uses of
insurrection
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Fear Of Insurrection.†
Chpt 12
- Not far from this time Nat Turner's insurrection broke out; and the news threw our town into great commotion.†
Chpt 12 *
- In some cases the searchers scattered powder and shot among their clothes, and then sent other parties to find them, and bring them forward as proof that they were plotting insurrection.†
Chpt 12
- After the alarm caused by Nat Turner's insurrection had subsided, the slaveholders came to the conclusion that it would be well to give the slaves enough of religious instruction to keep them from murdering their masters.†
Chpt 13
- The white people thought a great fire might be used as a good opportunity for insurrection, and that it was best to be in readiness; and the colored people were ordered out to labor in extinguishing the flames.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(insurrection) organized opposition to authority