 On two plantations on the Canje River in Berbice, the enslaved Africans rebelled, taking control of the region.As plantation after plantation fell to the enslaved Africans, the European population fled; eventually only half of the whites who had lived in the colony remained.Led by Cuffy (now the national hero of Guyana), the escaped enslaved Africans came to number about 3,000 and threatened European control over the Guianas.