Vocabulary
The act of enslaved people escaping from plantations and forming independent communities in remote areas.
Marronage
Acts or resistance employed by the enslaved can be placed in TWO categories.
Identify the TWO main categories of resistance.
Active and Passive
What punishment was finally given to the leaders after the trials?
a) Imprisonment
b) Execution
c) Deportation
d) Hard labour
c) Deportation/Transportation
On Wednesday the 7th of September, messages were to be sent to the individual estates informing the people _____________.
not to go out to work on Monday morning
What was ONE major factor that contributed to Caribbean revolts after the Haitian Revolution?
a) Increased taxes
b) Rumours that freedom was being withheld
c) Lack of food supplies
d) New trade laws
b) Rumours that freedom was being withheld
An uprising that resists and is organized against one's government
Rebellion
List TWO examples of passive resistance.
1.
2.
Malingering
Lying, stealing
Feigning illness/injuries/ignorance
Poisoning
Sabotage
Maiming animals-other enslaved
Explain the main goal of the revolutionary conspiracies in the Virgin Islands.
1. Take over the islands,
2. end the period of enslavement,
3. rule the islands themselves, and
4. create a free black state.
Planning began in March of 1831 with one enslaved man, _________ ______ recruiting six men from every plantation totaling 200 men to a meeting at the Pasea Hall Estate.
Joseph Long
On Saturday, the 4 th of September, 1831 the conch shell blew on____________. This signalled the start of the Revolution.
a. Purcell Estate
b. Josiah's Bay Estate
c. Arthur Hodges', Bellevue Estate
d. Anderson’s Brewer’s Bay Estate
d. Anderson’s Brewer’s Bay Estate
A forcible takeover of a government or social order.
Revolution
Subtle tactics performed by the enslaved that slowly chipped away at the system of enslavement, making it more frustrating for the planters.
Passive resistance
Shelly Martin was respected among the enslaved and free populations.
Give TWO reasons.
Shelly was placed in a position of confidence-he was an overseer.
Shelly possessed a large amount of property
Shelly was "surrounded in fact with comforts which many a free man might envy”.
This major announcement made on September 3rd 1831, further pushed the enslaved population of the VI to revolt.
Free Blacks and free persons of mixed descent in the Virgin Islands now had equal rights to the whites.
On which of George Martin's Estates was Shelly Martin enslaved?
Joe's Hill
The intentional fabrication or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms to gain a personal benefit.
Malingering
List THREE examples of active resistance.
1.
2.
3.
Active resistance
-Overt-
Designed to end the institution of slavery.
1. Murdering of whites
2. Revolt, Rebellion, Revolution, arson
3. Marronage, war
What information can be extracted about George Martin from the following?
George Martin’s Joe’s Hill Estate
George Martin’s was a relatively wealthy individual who owned at least TWO estates/properties
The start of the revolution was signaled by .........
Saturday, the 4th of September, 1831
The blowing of a conch shell on Anderson’s Brewer’s Bay estate.
Who was referred to as " Leader of the uprising", and "Uncle"?
Shelly Martin of George Martin’s Joe’s Hill Estate
A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful.
Conspiracy
Why were maroon communities difficult to establish in the VI(UK)?
Islands were too small, no extensive forests, swamps nor mountains to secretly settle.
Most of the forests on the island were cut to make way for plantations, provide material for boats, and provide firewood
External support for the planters of the VI(UK) to put down the 1831 Uprising came from;
1.
2.
1. The Governor on St. Kitts who sent ammunition and assistance.
2. Danish St. Thomas also sent a Danish brig to help quash the Revolution.
The Mount Healthy National park sits on areas that were once part of;
a. Purcell Estate
b. Anderson’s Brewer’s Bay Estate
c. Joe Martins Estate
d. Nottingham Estate
b. Anderson’s Brewer’s Bay Estate
What was to be the role of women should freedom be denied to the enslaved in 1831?
The women were to stay in the country and burn the plantation works.