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It rarely if ever happens that the slaves want to get full revenge by making their former master(s) ''their'' slave(s), probably because this isn't a story [[Idealism vs. Cynicism|idealist]] authors like to write.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* Fisher Tiger from ''[[One Piece]]'' started a campaign to end slavery after being [[Made a Slave]] during his journeys. His burning hatred of slavery surpassed his burning hatred of humans so much that he freed ''all'' the slaves he could find, regardless of race.▼
▲=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[One Piece]]''
▲** Fisher Tiger
** In the Dressrosa Arc, Donquixote Doflamingo's biggest asset towards keeping his iron grip on the country was the unique Devil Fruit ability of his henchman Sugar. With merely a touch, Sugar could turn any living creature into a [[Living Toy]], under her complete control, and as an added bonus, this [[Ret-Gone]]d the victim's former identity, ensuring their families and friends would not come looking for them. Over the ten years, Doflamingo ruled Dressrosa, Sugar was very liberal in use of this power, doing so to thousands of citizens and enemies. The flaw in this strategy, however, is that it had [[No Ontological Inertia]]. When the confrontation with Usopp rendered her unconscious, ''every single victim'' was restored, and memories of them were regained. With families reunited and hordes of enemies unleashed, this act not only fits Trope, but [[Slave Revolt]] as well, ultimately bringing Donflamingo's reign down.
** In the Sabaody Archipelago Arc, the Straw Hats' initial plan to rescue Camie from the slave auction was to buy her themselves; however, after [[Upper Class Twit| Saint Charlos]] made a [[Whammy Bid]], they had to resort to plan-B, which was starting a fight. This in turn, led to Luffy assaulting Charlos, the first - [[Can't Stop the Signal| but as a result, not nearly the last]] - time anyone had [[Sudden Principled Stand| dared oppose a World Noble.]]
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* In the ''[[Elf Quest]]'' elf-troll war arc the Wolfriders free Greymung's trolls so they can help fight against Guttlekraw's trolls who enslaved them. (This dismays Two-Edge, who never dreamed that trolls would fight with elves against trolls.)
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]''. Indiana frees scores of children who were enslaved and forced to dig to find the Sankara stones.
* [[Mighty Whitey|Tarl]] does this in the film version of ''[[Gor]]''. This is not at all complicated, since the films really doesn't have anything to do with the books they claim to be based on.
* The first we see of Conan as an adult in the 2011 reboot of ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' is him leading a raid to liberate a bunch of slaves from some pirates. The fact that a solid chunk of the slaves are [[Fanservice Extra|topless, nubile women]] is, of course, just a happy coincidence.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Citizen of the galaxy|Citizen of the Galaxy]]''. In the [[Backstory]], Colonel Baslim stormed a raider's compound and freed the crew of a Free Trader starship who had been captured to be made into slaves.
* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'': Many references are made to the [[Artificial Human|Genetic]] [[Fantastic Racism|Slave Trade]] throughout the books, with Honor having made a name for herself early in her career by capturing a large ship full of slaves and freeing them. The people responsible for the slavery, Manpower Unlimited, are a recurring minor foe who [[Man Behind the Man|back various other organizations in attacks on the Manticorans and the Havenites]]. They also {{spoiler|turn out to be a front for the far more ambitious [[Big Bad|Mesan Alignment]].}}
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* The freek Hork-Bajir in ''[[Animorphs]]'' regularly raided Yeerk projects to capture Hork-Bajir controllers and starve out the Yeerks inside them.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'': Sam leaps into his own great-grandfather, who was a union officer in [[The American Civil War]], and comes across a [[Southern Belle]] whose slave is secretly running a leg on the [[wikipedia:Underground Railroad|Underground Railroad,]] the (great?) grandfather of [[Martin Luther King Jr]].
* In [[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance]] Natalie Henry's SS guards are ordered to take all the prisoners at Auschwitz to Germany before the Russians find them. When they get there they finally agree it is time to say [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]] and run into the woods leaving their captives locked in the train for conquering GIs to find. She is one of the last captives to be rational(sort of) when she is finally rescued.
=== [[
*The folk song, ''Follow the Drinking Gourd (The Big Dipper)'' sung by such groups as New Christy Minstrals is about cryptic instructions given to a fugitive.
* [[wikipedia:Harriet Tubman|Hariet Tubman]]
* This is basically what the documentary ''[[The Dark Side of Chocolate]]'' hopes to accomplish for the many child slaves used in the cocoa industry.
* Whenever the Allied armies overran a concentration camp in [[World War 2]]. Technically the liberation took a long time as the victims tended to be so [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|traumatized]] that they needed considerable treatment before recycling back into civilization.
* In the sixteenth century when there was basically a [[Forever War]] on the Mediterranean, one Spanish captain is recorded by Fernard Braudel as waiting offshore the Barbary states to ambush corsairs on their way back from raids and return with the intended galley slaves. That Captain must have been rich enough in his own right to finance a pro-bono private war, though he sounds like he would make a great subject for an Errol Flynn movie.
=== Religion and Mythology ===
* In [[The Bible]], Moses & God use extreme force to coerce the Pharaoh to release the Hebrew slaves, up to and including killing every firstborn of the oppressors in the country. Despite all this, the Pharaoh keeps stubbornly refusing to the point where God basically stops giving him second chances and starts actively making the Pharaoh even stubborner, to get glory for Himself.
** In the book of Philemon, Paul encourages the titular Philemon to free his slave Onesimus.
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** Jesus was sent to "proclaim freedom for the captives", among other things.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
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** Being the goddess of freedom, Eilistraee and her followers have led uprisings that have liberated entire [[Slave Race]]s over the millennia.
=== [[
▲* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' Forgotten Realms setting. The Harpers try to free slaves whenever practical and possible. The supplement FOR4 ''The Code of the Harpers'' had a story about a Harper who freed a group of slaves from Thayan slavers.
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Morrowind]]'' have several situations where you can use violence to liberate some slaves. There's also a questline for a organization dedicated to rescuing slaves, although this questline doesn't go very far.
** We later find out that emancipation came between ''Morrowind'' and ''Oblivion''. Turns out that king in the Tribunal expansion decided that slavery really wasn't the way for a modern monarchical province of the Empire, and used the consequences of the events of ''Morrowind'' and ''Tribunal'' to destroy one of the major opponents to abolition and co-opt another.
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** See also [[Slave Revolt]] below.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', the order in general and the Haley & Elan duo in particular have taken up slave liberation sidequests. One of them ends... poorly.
* In ''[[Spacetrawler]]'', the main plot is a quest to liberate the Eebs.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode "Turu the Terrible''. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon kill the title
* Batman and Kamandi do this in the ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Last Bat on Earth!".
=== [[Film]] ===▼
▲=== Examples of [[Release Your Slaves]] / [[Buy Their Freedom]] ===
▲== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' Pseudolus is freed by his master at the end for helping the son gain his bride.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'', the [[Decoy Protagonist]] is a kindly white man who decide to set his slaves free - but then die before he get around to it, and the slaves suffer terribly under their new owner.
* In the third [[Gor]] novel, ''Priest-Kings of Gor'', Tarl almost revolutionizes Gorean society to outlaw slavery... but doesn't quite get around to doing it. (Gor being Gor, Tarl eventually realizes that [[Happiness in Slavery|slavery is a good thing]]).
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* In ''[[Guns Of The South]]'', the first item on Robert E. Lee's agenda after being elected President of the Confederacy is the slow, gentle emancipation of all his country's slaves.
=== Manga and Anime ===
* This prompts the [[Inevitable Tournament]] arc in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
=== Video Games ===
* [[Neverwinter Nights]]: ''Hordes of the underdark'' give you to buy a slave, you can free her by sending her with a message to your allies. Any other option results in her death.
=== Web Comics ===
* Attempted by Flora of ''[[Twokinds]]'', who offers to let her human boyfriend Trace buy Keidran slaves in order to set them free... from someone who knows Trace can't afford them, even if he was selling.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* The Romans sometimes used to free slaves (manumission) and it became such a social institution that they developed a whole legal code around how it could be done, the legal status of a freed slave and his descendants and so on. Of course, their motivation was not a belief that slavery was wrong. Often manumission happened because it was possible for a slave to buy his own freedom from his savings, so it provided an incentive for them to work hard.
** [[Fair for Its Day|It helps to remember that if the Romans didn't see slavery as vile as we do, its at least partly because they viewed the institution in radically different ways than we do]]. To modern Americans, slavery is an exclusive, racialized matter; to the Romans(and other ancient peoples) it was something that could befall anybody. Or, to paraphrase a book on the subject: ''By modern standards of enslavement, Julius Freakin' Caesar was once enslaved for a time''
* Slaves in the southern US also could buy their freedom, given enough money. Some of them would even self-mutilate, to lower the price of their freedom.
=== Examples of [[Slave Revolt]] (that are not [[Gladiator Revolt]]) ===▼
▲== [[Film]] ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Spartacus]]''
=== [[Literature]] ===
* At least half of the ''[[Redwall]]'' books involve slavery, and when they do they will ''invariably'' be freed or rise up by themselves.
* The first two free Hork-Bajir in ''[[Animorphs]]'' were runaways, prompted by the [[Eldritch Abomination|Ellimist]]
* [[Honor Harrington]] again with the Verdant Vista/Torch rebellion. Overlaps with type 1, as it's a multinational effort involving people from Haven, Manticore, Erewhon, and the slaves themselves.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The ''[[Fallout]] 3 DLC'' expansion "The Pitt" is based entirely around starting a slave revolt scenario by getting yourself enslaved and undermining the operation from within.
* The premise of ''[[Lesbian Spider
* The backstory of ''[[Fire Emblem]]'''s [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Akaneia canon]] features this - during the rule of the Dolhr empire, a band of slaves led by a man named Iote revolted against their Dolhr masters, tamed the wild wyverns to use as mounts, and after the fall of Dolhr founded the kingdom of Macedon, with Iote as their first king.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* In ''[[Overside]]'', the short comic "The Tusks of Wusterim" shows that the kingdom of Wusterim was destroyed when its frog slaves revolted.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* The Arab world saw the [[wikipedia:Zanj Rebellion|Zanj Rebellion]] in 869, which was lead by an Ali ibn Muhammad who managed to take Basra. It took fourteen years to defeat them, and half a million people followed him. Most of them were East African slaves, but other people joined their fight.
* Haiti is the only nation that was founded via a slave revolt. Well, the full story is more complicated: [[wikipedia:Haitian Revolution|The Haitian Revolution]] was a thirteen-year long clusterfuck where the black slaves (about 90% of the population - most of them were even born in Africa, not Haiti), the mulattoes, the whites (themselves divided into monarchists and republicans) fought each other, and the states of France (first under the Jacobins, later under [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]), Britain and Spain interfered. Revolutionary France first gave human rights to free blacks and mulattoes in 1792, then abolished slavery officially in 1794 (to get the slaves defend Haiti against the invading Spanish and Brits), then Napoleon tried to re-introduce slavery, but his army was decimated by yellow fever... it's complicated.
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