Sovereign Struggle: Cuffy and the 1763 Berbice Rebellion

The Sovereign Struggle: Cuffy and the 1763 Berbice Rebellion In February 1763, an enslaved cooper named Cuffy did what no rebel leader in the Americas had yet achieved: he built a nation. On the sugar plantations of Dutch Berbice, on the drowned and diked coastline of the Wild Coast, he transformed a spontaneous uprising into a sovereign African state, governing captured plantations, training a st...