While there is nothing in this country to compare with the two great risings of 1763 in Berbice and 1823 in Demerara, they were not the only ones to have taken place here.
There are others about which not a great deal is known because they were very small scale and for the most part were put down with relative ease. One such is the rebellion involving only 26 people, which took place on the upper Berbice some months before Coffy and his fellow revolutionaries took up arms against the Dutch. It is of particular interest, because it may have showed the conspirators of the great uprising that conditions had changed, and revolt might have some hope of success.
