Cultural Resistance
Who is John W. Blassingame?
The author of the slave community
Why was day to day so important?
Because it illustrated the challenge and daily refusal with which Africans confronted the enslavement system.
What is Abolitionism
Is creating any necessary action and movement to end slavery.
Define Guerilla Warfare
Guerilla Warefare is a sort of warfare fought by irregulars such as members of Maroon or independent communities. Maroon communities duplicated the African Societies.They existed in forest, mountains, and swampy regions of states such as Virginia,Carolinas, Georgia, etc.
What is a Revolt?
an armed uprising which does not end in 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, Taking Property, Destroying crops, shamming lines or ignorance, taking property, spontaneous and planned strikes, work slow-downs, self-mutilation, arson, attacks on whites and poison of slave holders and their families
Name two abolitionists
Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth
Explain the Afro Native American Alliance
How many slave revolts were recorded in the US?
250 revolts were recorded in the US
Define Cultural Creation
a form of cultural resistance in which the European 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?
50 abolitionists groups
Armed Resistance received the most criticism during slavery due to. . .
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
due to its regularity and the daily preoccupation
Harriett Tubman visited the South this many times. . .
19 times
Explain the African-Mexican Alliance
These two rebel leaders started revolts during the 1800's
Vessey and Turner
These are the 3 elements that African Slavery relied on
1. The interaction between certain universal elements of Western African Culture
2. The institutionalized demands of planation life
3. The process or enslavement and the (Africans) 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, flight wasn't an everyday action.
This group of Black people were important to the Underground Railroad. . .
it was a chance to help enslaved Africans and set them free
These are the 5 basic forms of armed resistance. . .
1. Revolts 5. Afro -Native American Alliance
2. Ship Mutinies
3. Guerilla Warfare
4. Afro-Mexican Alliance
The three elements of an unsuccessful revolution are...
1. The reveal about rebels as well as the leader.
2. The effect they had on slaveholders.
3. The effect they had on other Africans and descendants.