John Howard
Howard's Rebellion was a slave rebellion in the Southern Confederation in 1815, one of over 600 slave uprisings recorded between 1810 and 1836. The rebellion was led by John Howard, an illiterate Virginia slave who vowed to kill every plantation owner in the S.C. or die trying. Although Sobel does not reveal how many people died in the course of Howard's Rebellion, he does note that it struck every major plantation in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and resulted in the destruction of N.A. £20 million before Howard and the rebellion's other leaders were captured and executed.
Sobel's sources for Howard's Rebellion are Theodore Holmes' Slave Rebellions of the 1820s (New York, 1945); and Ricardo Rodriguez's Slavery as an Issue in the Southern Confederation (Mexico City, 1970).