Franz Claasen: The Enslaved African Who Was Rewarded With A Plantation for Helping His Enslaver Escape a Slave Revolt
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In November 1733, the island of St. John in the Danish West Indies erupted in one of the most remarkable slave revolts in the history of the Americas. By the time it was over, an enslaved man named Franz Claasen had helped his enslaver’s family escape with their lives, and walked away as the first […] TalkAfricana
