Terrorization aboard slave ships forced Africans to adopt the slave identity.

Evidence

The methods the slaver used to de-humanize African women and men were various tortures and punishments. A slave might be severely beaten for singing a sad song. When he deemed it necessary, the slaver would slaughter a slave so as to inspire terror in the enslaved onlookers. These methods of terrorization succeeded in forcing African people to repress their awareness of themselves as free people and to adopt the slave identity imposed upon them. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 58

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Depicting Africans as primitive legitimized colonial invasion and plunder.; Slaves responded to plantation violence through collaboration, endurance, or open terror; Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183 (+3 more)

Related

• Slavery’s control system relied on a pervasive terror of resistance against masters (similarity 0.87)
• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror (similarity 0.84)
• Slavers exercised unchecked power over unshackled black women on slave ships. (similarity 0.84)
• Rape of enslaved women functioned as institutionalized terrorism, not lust (similarity 0.82)
• Black women bore the brunt of slave-ship terror because they could not retaliate (similarity 0.79)
• Terror, not force alone, secured slave obedience in the French colonies (similarity 0.79)
• Slaveholders committed far more atrocities than revolting slaves did (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Slaves responded to plantation violence through collaboration, endurance, or open terror #corroborates (0.60)
• Slavery’s control system relied on a pervasive terror of resistance against masters #complicates (0.60)
• Black women bore the brunt of slave-ship terror because they could not retaliate #expands (0.55)
• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror #corroborates (0.50) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183