Enslaved people continually resisted the structure of bondage rather than accommodating to it.

Evidence

At the core of such behavior was the slave’s lack of accommodation to much that confronted him in bondage. Bondage continually worked against the bondsman, though he never left its functioning untempered with. The frustration was enormous. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1891

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the revisionist thesis that “accommodation” was absent at the core of enslaved behavior.