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The Levering Conspiracy was a slave rebellion in the Southern Confederation in 1821, one of over 600 slave uprisings recorded between 1810 and 1836. The conspiracy was led by two slaves in the province of Georgia, Martin Levering and Sam Peck. Sobel gives no details on the size of the rebellion, how much damange was inflicted, or how many people were killed or injured. He does note that the Levering Conspiracy "caused great consternation" among the white population of the confederation.


Sobel's sources for the Levering Conspiracy are 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).

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