| JOHNBROWN | US abolitionist leader han ed in 1859 after eading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (4,5) |
| TATA | "I'm 'eading 'ome!" |
| SPARTACUS | Leader of the 73BCE rebellion of slaves against the Romans |
| ICENI | Tribe of ancient Britons whose queen, Boudicca, led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans (5) |
| SHENANDOAH | River formed in Virginia, US, that joins the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia |
| SEPOYS | Troops in the service of the British East India Company, who instigated the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (6) |
| BLACKWATCH | The 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, created after the first Jacobite rebellion of 1715 (5,5) |
| JULIAWARDHOWE | US abolitionist and poet who authored The Battle Hymn of the Republic (5,4,4) |
| HOWE | Julia Ward ___, US abolitionist and poet who authored The Battle Hymn of the Republic (4) |
| PHILEMON | Last and shortest of the Pauline epistles in the New Testament, addressed to the owner of slave Onesimus (8) |
| LUCIFER | Leader of the rebellion of the angels usually identified with Satan (7) |
| TRAVELSICKNESS | This might have stricken slaves at sea |
| CHAINGANG | Form of slave or prison labour sung about by Sam Cooke; or, a peloton or line of slipstreaming cyclists (5,4) |
| MINION | No! I'm in it like the sort of slave I've become |
| PTA | Hypocritical grp. at Harper Valley Junior High, in song |
| SAMURAI | Warrior in the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 |
| LUCKNOW | City of Uttar Pradesh, besieged during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (7) |
| NAT | Turner who led an 1831 rebellion of enslaved people |
| UNWILLINGSERVANT | Employment of slaves |
| SWEATSHOPLABOR | Employment of slaves |
