Conspiracy of the Slaves
1749 CE.
Shown on the map at 35.899°, 14.514°.
The Conspiracy of the Slaves (Maltese: il-konġura tal-ilsiera or il-konfoffa tal-ilsiera; Italian: congiura de schiavi) was a failed plot by Muslim slaves in Hospitaller Malta to rebel and assassinate Grand Master Manuel Pinto da Fonseca of the Order of St John, in an attempt to facilitate the capture of Malta by the Ottoman Empire in June 1749. The plot is believed to have been instigated by Mustafa, Pasha of Rhodes, an Ottoman official who had been captured following a revolt by Christian slaves on his galley Lupa in January 1748. He was enslaved upon the galley's arrival in Malta in February 1748, but he was given comfortable living quarters due to his high rank and he was formally freed in May 1749 following French intervention due to the Franco-Ottoman alliance. The revolt involved a planned takeover of the Grand Master's Palace and other key locations in Valletta and Birgu, an uprising among slaves on board the Hospitaller galley squadron, and naval support from the Barbary states and the Ottomans.
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