Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-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

• XREF: The spectrum from collaboration to avoidance to sowing terror foreshadows the rebellion pathways the rest of the revolution will trace; resembles the survival-strategy analyses in The Frankfurt School’s work on authoritarian subjects. — connects to: Oppressed people maintained a continuous, dignified resistance throughout history; Terrorization aboard slave ships forced Africans to adopt the slave identity. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 58; Slave drivers balanced complicity with the master against leadership of the enslaved community (+13 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183

Broader Connections

• Slaves responded to plantation violence through collaboration, endurance, or open terror #qualifies (0.80)
• Enslaved workers won removal of brutal overseers through collective strikes #exemplifies (0.60)
• Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance #expands (0.50) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288
• Knowledge of poison conferred power and respect within the slave community #expands (0.40)