Cultural Resistance
Who is John W. Blassingame?
The author of "The slave community"
Why was day to day so important?
it illustrated the challenge and daily refusal with which Africans confronted the enslavement system
What is Abolitionism
creating any necessary action and movement for ending slavery.
Define Guerilla Warfare
A third form of armed resistance to enslavement. Maroon communities duplicated the African societies, they existed in forest, mountain, and swampy regions. They stayed in states such as Virginia, North&South Carolina, Georgia, etc.
What is a Revolt?
an armed uprising which does not end in a state of power.
The three forms of the cultural resistance
1. Cultural retention & synthesis
2. Cultural creation
3. maintenance and development of a family against all odds.
Give 2 examples of day-to-day sabotage
Breaking tools, Destroying crops, taking property, shamming illness, ignorance, planned strikes, work slow downs, self mutilation, arson, attacks on whites and poisoning of slave holders and their families.
Name two abolitionists
1.Harriet Tubman
2.Fredrick Douglass
3.Sojourner Truth
Explain the Afro Native American Alliance
an alliance between Native Americans and Africans due to their common mistreatment and enslavement by Europeans.
How many slave revolts were recorded in the US?
Over 250 slave revolts were recorded in the US
Define Cultural Creation
a form cultural resistance in which Europeans sought to not only destroy the Africans past but to also limit their future.
This is the ultimate form of day-to-day resistance
Suicide and infanticide.
By 1838, how many abolitionists groups were there?
There were 50 abolitionists groups in 1838
Armed Resistance received the most criticism during slavery due to. . .
its armed action against society
What was the most notable slave revolt
New York City Revolt in 1712
Name at least 2 distinctive survival retentions
Dancing and Moral Narratives
Flight was included in day to day resistance because of this reason
of its regularity and the daily preoccupation with it
Harriett Tubman visited the South this many times. . .
19 times
Explain the African-Mexican Alliance
due to wanting freedom, enslaved Africans moved to the borders of Mexico and acted as "barriers" in the war against Spain
These two rebel leaders started revolts during the 1800's
Vessey and Turner
These are the 3 elements that African Slavery relied on
1) interaction between certain universal elements of West African culture. 2) institutionalized demands of plantation. 3) The process of enslavement and the (African) creative response to enslavement
Flight is not truly a form of day-to-day resistance because. . .
day to day resistance was upon daily refusal and challenge. However, flight was not an everyday action
Which group of Black people were important to the Underground Railroad. . .
Abolitionists
These are the 5 basic forms of armed resistance. . .
1) Revolts 2)Ship Mutinies 3) Guerilla Warfare 4) Afro-Mexican Alliance and Struggle 5) Afro-Native American Alliance and Struggle
The three elements of an unsuccessful revolution are...
1) The reveal about rebels and their leader
2) The effect they have on slaveholders
3) The effect they held on their enslaved Africans and descendants