Eighteenth-century slave rebelliousness was documented fact, unlike later Sambo myths

Evidence

“Slave rebelliousness was a familiar reality in eighteenth-century America. This may explain why most historians who have studied blacks in the colonial and Revolutionary periods have never been drawn into the debate over the creation of docile Sambos that absorbed scholars of nineteenth-century slavery for so long.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1979

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Sambo thesis debate (Elkins) treated elsewhere in Black Marxism and to Aptheker’s Negro Slave Revolts.