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Forms of Resistance in Slavery

Defining Resistance Active ( insurrectory ) Forms of Resistance - Haitian Revolution - maroon communities Passive (non- insurrectory ) Forms of Resistance Alternative Lifestyle. Forms of Resistance in Slavery. In the Americas, slave resistance was the

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Forms of Resistance in Slavery

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  1. Defining Resistance • Active (insurrectory)Forms of Resistance - Haitian Revolution - maroon communities • Passive (non-insurrectory)Forms of Resistance • Alternative Lifestyle Forms of Resistance in Slavery

  2. In the Americas, slave resistance was the sum of all the tools and strategies used to openly challenge and defy the system of slavery, as well as the more subtle responses of survival that characterized the daily lives of slaves and helped keep their spirits alive. Defining Resistance

  3. 1. Size and make-up of slave population; 2. Class tensions among whites (petits and grandsblancs); 3. Large and relatively wealthy free non-white group; 4. French Revolution and questions of citizenship. Factors in the Success of the Haitian Revolution

  4. Saint-Domingue (Haiti) 1791-1804 Denmark Vessey, Charleston, South Carolina, 1822 Nat Turner, Virginia, August 1831 Sam Sharpe, Jamaica, Christmas 1831 Some Major Slave Revolts

  5. Maroon communities were made up primarily of escaped slaves and were organized attempts to establish free, autonomous black communities socially and politically independent of plantation slave society. Maroon Communities

  6. 1793 Canada passes bill to prevent further importation of slaves; first British territory to enact anti-slavery legislation; 1807 British abolish slave trade; 1834 British colonies abolish slavery but introduce period of Apprenticeship which lasts until 1838; 1865 US government abolishes slavery in the US South; 1886 Cubans abolish slavery after a six-year period of patronato; This ends slavery in the Caribbean; 1888 Brazil is the final colony in the Americas to abolish slavery. Gradual Abolition of Slavery

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