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You can only abuse people so much before they snap and out come the guillotines. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org

• simonsarris 9y ago
  Historically almost all slave rebellions end poorly. > guillotines I just want to remind everybody that the French revolution was started by the professional class of the third estate: landlords, lawyers, magistrates, and professional tradesmen, who felt they were being taxed too onerously by the gov/king. It was not in any sense started by the peasants. Peasants are maybe good for harnessing when you need to break stuff, they are not very good at actually organizing or starting successful rebellions. As far as I know no successful revolution, except Haiti's slave revolution, has occurred without support from an elite class, though sometimes that elite class support is from the outside (like the French support in the American Revolution).