SLAVE RESISTANCE

Slave Resistance

Atlantic slave trade to North America

Transatlantic slave trade was the enslavement and transportation, especially the African people, and in the colonies of the New World that occurred in the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from 16 to 19 century (Linebaugh Peter Rediker 2000). Most of the enslaved people were shipped from West Africa and Central Africa and North and South America to work on sugar, coffee, cocoa and cotton plantations, in gold and silver mines in the rice fields, the construction industry, timber and shipping or homes to work in as servants. Most modern historians believe that between 9.4 and 12 million Africans arrived in the New World, although the actual number of people taken from their homestead is considerably higher.

Resistance against Slavery and its effects

Slave resistance began in British North America almost as soon as the first slaves arrived in the Chesapeake in the early seventeenth century. As one scientist put it, "slaves" of course "resisted their enslavement, because slavery was fundamentally unnatural" (Aitken Jonathan Newton 2007). Forms varied but the common denominator in all acts of resistance to an attempt to claim some measure of freedom from the institution, which is defined by the people principally in the property. Perhaps the most common forms of resistance were those that occurred in the working environment. In the end, slavery was ultimately about the compulsory labor, and enslaved struggled daily to determine their working conditions. If the slave masters of the increased workload, provided meager rations, or punished too harshly, slaves registered their displeasure, slowing down, feigning illness, breach of instruments, or to sabotage the production. These everyday forms of resistance unfortunate slave masters, but there was little they could do to stop them, without risking a wider business interruption. Thus, negotiations are often enslaved the basic conditions ...