Enslaved people resisted slavery through collaboration, endurance, and terror.
Evidence
Some slaves collaborated in the master’s violence, driven by the fear of becoming its target or by the hope of channeling it elsewhere. Many other slaves simply avoided it and survived as best they could, following orders and trying desperately to work tiny plots of land to feed themselves and their families, crafting small spaces of comfort and community. Some, however, responded by sowing terror among their masters. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Slaveholders committed far more atrocities than revolting slaves did (similarity 0.88)
- Enslaved people resisted constantly through tools, slowdowns, flight, and arms (similarity 0.86)
- Enslaved people defied authorities to maintain their own burial grounds (similarity 0.84)
- Slave drivers balanced complicity with the master against leadership of the enslaved community (similarity 0.81)
- Slavery’s control system relied on a pervasive terror of resistance against masters (similarity 0.80)
- Enslaved people resisted control of burial even under official oversight (similarity 0.80)
- Enslaved people continually resisted the structure of bondage rather than accommodating to it. (similarity 0.79)
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- Enslaved informants betrayed the largest planned slave revolt in North America. (similarity 0.78)