Slave resistance evolved into a battle to preserve collective African identity

Evidence

Nevertheless, African resistance in Mexico continued to mature in form and character. The struggle against slavery was being transferred into the battle to preserve the collective identity of African peoples. By the early seventeenth century, according to official colonial documents, at least one Black community, San Lorenzo de los Negros, had acquired its right to existence by war and treaty. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 654

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: A key structural turning point for the reader’s research: resistance transformed from anti-slavery into a defense of collective identity, central to the tradition’s formation.

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• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.81)