Oppressed people maintained a continuous, dignified resistance throughout history

Evidence

Monk Lewis also had cause to complain about a ‘Petticoat Rebellion’, when the women labourers on his estate downed tools and ‘one and all refused to carry away the trash … without the slightest pretence’. The mill was shut down for several days, yet the women stubbornly refused to go back to work. When the driver attempted to persuade them, ‘a fierce young devil of a Miss Whaunica flew at his throat and endeavoured to strangle him’. — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

But the junta could not and will not be able to reach its essential objective: the recovery of the arms held by the miners and peasants. The army advanced, but the arms were hidden. Nobody responded to the invitation to turn over their guns. Without leadership the defeat was inevitable and the miners had to retreat. But they were not broken: proof—the hidden arms. Nobody hides a weapon—at the risk of death or of the loss of his wages, which in Bolivia is almost the same thing—if it is not in order to continue the resistance, if he is not already, by this act alone, continuing the battle. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 53 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288; Imperialism matured the very social forces that later resisted it; African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements (+11 more)

Related

• Slaves responded to plantation violence through collaboration, endurance, or open terror (similarity 0.86)
• Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance (similarity 0.84)
• Enslaved workers won removal of brutal overseers through collective strikes (similarity 0.83)
• Enslaved women staged small daily acts of resistance against plantation owners (similarity 0.81)
• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror (similarity 0.80)
• House slaves actively negotiated and resisted their distinctive form of bondage. (similarity 0.79)
• Enslaved people resisted constantly through tools, slowdowns, flight, and arms (similarity 0.79)
• State power and force never extinguished liberationist rebellions (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance #exemplifies (0.85) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288
• Even defeated uprisings persist through the hidden act of keeping arms #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 53
• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror #exemplifies (0.80) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165
• African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements #exemplifies (0.70)
• An African tradition grounded Black resistance from 1550 to 1850 #exemplifies (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 833
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 617
• Enslaved people coined a political vocabulary classifying their white oppressors #exemplifies (0.70)
• Early Black resistance sought survival and consciousness-preservation, not revolution #qualifies (0.65)
• Imperialism itself generated the resistance and revolution that opposed it #complicates (0.60)
• Imperialism matured the very social forces that later resisted it #complicates (0.55)