Enslaved people resisted constantly through tools, slowdowns, flight, and arms

Evidence

No one voluntarily submits to slavery. Enslaved people had always resisted. They broke tools, slowed down their work, and self-emancipated by stealing themselves away. They also did what the white colonists themselves advocated: they took up arms against their oppressors to secure their freedom. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 94

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slaves resisted plantation tech-stagnation by developing an informal scrap economy. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 377