{"id":81,"date":"2017-04-03T01:25:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T01:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/slave-revolt\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:30:08","slug":"slave-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/slave-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave revolt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re finally ready for action.<\/p>\n<p>A while back already, I wrote a blog on <a href=\"index.php\/painting-blog\/55-painting-carribean-africans\">painting Caribbean Africans<\/a>. I finally finished actually painting the three Foundry packs I&#8217;d bought.<\/p>\n<p>I painted 23 figures; I somehow had managed to get a hold of the old 8-packs. Don&#8217;t know what happened to that last guy. Will probably find find when I least expect it.<\/p>\n<p>The pic shows about half of the painted figures. They&#8217;re actually pretty easy to paint, having little to no equipment other than their rifles.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what most Americans might think, about 85% of Africans brought to the New World went to the Caribbean, not the Colonies. They worked the sugar plantations. Conditions were brutal and there were frequent revolts. As a matter of interest, Alexander Hamilton grew up the the Caribbean and because of his experience was a strong abolitionist.<\/p>\n<p>These figures are in the pirate range but I think they would be better as an independent force, perhaps allied with pirates.<\/p>\n<p>September 2017 Update: Yup, found the 24th character. I&#8217;d set him aside to compare heights with other figures. Now he&#8217;s on the painting table waiting his turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re finally ready for action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}