Slave isolation and dependence on masters slowed mass movement formation
Evidence
In the masters’ domiciles, the complexities of the relationships between labor and the exploiters of labor many times included bonds of sentiment, but more importantly and persistently the house servants had realized “The masters had stood between them and a world in which they had no legal protection except the master.” And that “The masters were their source of information” (p. 123). Earlier in the work, Du Bois had suggested, “Any mass movement under such circumstances must materialize slowly and painfully” (p. 57). — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1106
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Plantation slavery deliberately isolated slaves from each other and from information (similarity 0.83)
- Slavery’s control system relied on a pervasive terror of resistance against masters (similarity 0.80)
- Slavery’s planners never anticipated the resistance it would generate (similarity 0.80)
- Slaves maintained an autonomous culture and consciousness apart from their rulers (similarity 0.78)
- Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Slave strikes and labor disruption forced planter concessions and overseer removal
#complicates(0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 192 - Slaves maintained an autonomous culture and consciousness apart from their rulers
#complicates(0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1127 - United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations
#contradicts(0.50) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 454 - Runaway slave communities remained independent for nearly two centuries
#contradicts(0.45) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1960