Slave resistance

15 Responses from slaves / Slave resistance

Slaves responded or reacted differently to all forms of ill-treatment which they received from their masters.

They would connive/ collaborate with the house maids and poison their masters
In some cases they would break the bottles, grind them and apply them in the food for their masters.
They boiled seeds so that they will not germinate.
They also responded by damaging equipment
They would also derelict/adjust equipment to reduce levels of production.
Female slaves practiced infanticide whereby they killed their new babies so that they will not be enslaved.

They would stick to their African music and way of life even though they were in the new world (cultural resistance)
They would also take advantage of language to give nicknames to their masters.
They would also continue to do their cultural practices.
At times if they get a chance they would run away into secluded places where they would establish maroon societies where they would be free.
They would defend their maroon societies against invaders.
They facked illnesses so that they will not go to work.
Some practiced self- mutilation like breaking their hands to deny the masters profits associated with their labour.
Some responded by doing the jobs so slowly and badly
Some stole equipment, machinery and seeds as an act of sabotage