Marronage gave way to community-based resistance as plantation capitalism expanded

Evidence

In the New World there were also changes. The systems of reconstitution of Black communities were, as well, assaulted by forms of forced labor: peonage, share-cropping, and less than subsistence farming. Moreover, Black workers were subject to displacement from productive land and to publicly and privately organized campaigns of terror and intimidation. Ineluctably, resistance was propelled toward new forms, new consciousness, and new ideologies. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Marronage spread into Native American settlements to produce the Black Seminoles; Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434; African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements (+1 more)

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