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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: If we must die: A history of shipboard insurrections during the slave trade Abstract: Throughout the history of slavery, the men and women held in bondage continually resisted. They ran away; intentionally broke equipment they were supposed to use; feigned illness, injury, or even pregnancy; established vibrant slave communities; and sometimes even rose up and attempted to reclaim their liberty by force. The historiography concerning slavery has increasingly incorporated this tradition of resistance into the general historical portrait of slave behavior. The myth of the humble, contented, and docile slave has lost its currency and continues to be replaced by more accurate depictions. Interestingly, however, the implication of much of the work done on slavery is that the tradition of resistance first developed into a coherent movement only after slaves reached the Americas, as if the Middle Passage had been so psychologically devastating that intensive shipboard resistance was unthinkable. As a result, shipboard resistance continues to receive relatively little attention. What few realize is that Africans, and in some cases African Americans, established a courageous legacy of shipboard revolt, the continual expressions of which were just as powerful and extraordinary as the resistance that later emerged in the Americas. |
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