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For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back

  • Written by Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard University
imageAdolphe Duperly's painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832.Wikimedia Commons

During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays. Slave owners usually gave them bigger portions of food, gifted them alcohol and provided extra days...

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