Day-to-Day Resistance
This type of "quiet resistance" included doing work at a slower pace to undermine the slave system.
What is working slowly?
This term refers to enslaved Africans who escaped to form independent communities.
Answer: What is maroonage?
Armed uprisings by enslaved people are known as this.
Answer: What are revolts?
The ability to live your life without being controlled by someone else.
Answer: What is Freedom
The act of escaping from slavery and forming independent communities away from the plantations.
Maroonage
.Breaking tools and pretending to be __ were common acts of daily resistance.
Begins with S>>>>
What is pretending to be sick?
Maroon settlements were often established in this dense, unexplored region of Belize.
Answer: Settlement near the Belize River.
Evidence of constant fear of revolt is shown by the harsh ______ of slaves.
Answer: What are punishments?
The abolition of the slave trade did NOT free these people.
Answer: Who were those already enslaved?
Enslaved Africans who escaped and lived in free, hidden communities in the forests or mountains.
Maroons
Enslaved Africans secretly preserved these cultural elements such as stories, music, and religion.
What are cultural traditions?
Maroon communities challenged these colonial rulers in Belize.
Answer: Who were the British/Baymen?
These colonial settlers lived in fear of revolt.
Who were they?
Answer: Who were the Baymen?
Slavery was an illegal system. What does illegal means ?
Answer: What is Against the Law.
To get away from a place or situation where you are being controlled or held against your will. Begins with E.....
Escape
The abilities needed to live in the wild, such as building shelters, finding food, or navigating the forest. Begins with S.......
Survival Skills
These settlements symbolized a powerful claim to both freedom and ______.
Starts with I..........
Answer: What is Independence
When a group of people fight against the government .
Answer: What is uprising.
Even after 1807, this still continued in Belize until emancipation.
Begins with S........
Answer: What is slavery?
Fighting back against control, injustice, or oppression.
Resistance
Quiet resistance showed that enslaved Africans were not weak or doing nothing — it showed they were strong and brave. Starts with R.........
Answer: What is resilience?
The existence of maroon communities showed that enslaved people did not accept this condition.
Answer: What is slavery.
The desire for open, violent resistance shows enslaved Africans valued this above all.
Answer: What is freedom?
Ending the slave trade helped begin the long process toward this major milestone in 1834.
Begins with E>>>????
Answer: What is emancipation?
The British rulers or officials who controlled Belize during slavery.
Colonial Authorities