Leadbelly does one which he is supposed to have learned on a trip to one of the Southern prisons with Lomax. It is not about revolt, but about escape (a popular topic with prisoners.) He recorded it for Moses Ashe as "Ol' Riley" and somewhere else as "Hey Rattler"

You can hear a version on the Smithsonian archive "Where did you sleep last night. (Part 1 of "The Leadbelly Legacy).

The story is that Riley was a slave who sucessfully escaped by walking in the water and thus avoiding being traced by the Bloodhounds.

It starts out:

Ol' Riley walked the water on a long hot summer day.

Rattler is a bloodhound who was known as a "sukey eater" and the "Hey Rattler" is the call for the bloodhound.

The "Hey Rattler" part has a different rythm from the "Riley" part of the song, and I suspect they are two songs about the same subject that he put together.

Murray