The Kessel revolts refer to a number of insurrections that occurred on the world of Kessel throughout the Imperial Period.
These Kessel rebellions were started by Salis Kabor, a Lorrdian revolutionary whose life was devoted to combating slavery.
During one of these uprisings, Trioculus, who held the title of Supreme Slavelord of the spice mines of Kessel, used a turbolaser weapon to kill thousands of enslaved protestors.
In the year 0 ABY, some time following Kabor's execution, the Kessel revolts were honored with a monument located in the Crypt of Martyrs on the planet of Lorrd.
In the year 5 ABY, Trioculus retold the story of the slave rebellion on Kessel to Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa.
According to Adrick Tolliver, the writer of Death in the Slave Pits of Lorrd, the Kessel revolts are meant to be the events mentioned in Queen of the Empire, a 1993 publication penned by Paul and Hollace Davids.