AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SLAVE REVOLT

America 's largest "slave revolt" was neither Nat Turner 's of 1831, in Virginia; nor that of Deslondes, Louisiana, in 1811, that is so little known; nor is it the "Stono River Rebellion," 1739, in South Carolina. The largest, most decisively successful slave revolt in the history of United States was the Civil War, itself, (1861-1865). Known as the "Freedom War" to slaves and to the freedmen of that era, this war had been, in fact, inspired, induced, caused by the slaves' relentlessly running away to Canada, primarily; and to the consequences : political, social, economic consequences, of their flight! Their flights from slavery to freedom had unleashed a chain reaction which culminated, ironically, in thousands of fully-armed black Union troops (USCT) marching triumphantly into the Confederate States of America's capital, Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when it fell, and as elated President Abraham Lincoln visited that fall!