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On this day in 1816, the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history, known as "Bussa's Rebellion", began when a group of slaves burned cane fields in the St. Philip parish, a signal to the rest of the island to begin the revolt.
On this day in 1775, Philadelphia Quakers formed the first abolitionist organization in the U.S., the "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage". Although they won reforms, they never succeeded in abolishing slavery.
On this day in 1919, the Limerick Soviet (Irish: Sóibhéid Luimnigh) formed during a general strike, one of a number of self-declared Irish workers' soviets that were formed between 1919 and 1923.
Valeriano Orobón Fernández, born on this day in 1901, was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist theoretician, trade union activist, translator, and poet who wrote the lyrics of the revolutionary song "A Las Barricadas".