Enslaved Africans preserved kinship fellowship and treated resistance as group activity

Evidence

Whatever the precise meaning of procurement for the African as a person, his fellowship or affectivity, a core area of human behavior, remained intact as a slave. Africans, assuming that resistance was a group activity, ran off with their own countrymen, and American-born slaves including mulattoes. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 834

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the chapter’s central thesis that the enslaved carried an intact cultural core into the Americas.