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[4]: 597 As such, "Confrontation in the Old South characteristically took the form of an individual slave's open resistance to plantation authorities," [4]: 599 or other individual or small-group actions, such as slaves opportunistically killing slave traders in hopes of avoiding forced migration away from friends and family. [5] [6]
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-6579-3. Taylor, Eric Robert (2009). If we must die: shipboard insurrections in the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3442-9
The slaves on board revolted while the ship was anchored off the coast and all but two of the crew, including Captain Millar, had succumbed to disease. [37] Another successful slave revolt occurred six days after the ship Little George had left the Guinea coast. The ship carried ninety-six slaves, thirty-five of which were male. [35]
Opposition and resistance. ... Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or ... The transportation of slaves from Africa to America was known as the ...
The Cuban slave trade between 1796 and 1807 was dominated by American slave ships. Despite the 1794 Act, Rhode Island slave ship owners found ways to continue supplying the slave-owning states. The overall U.S. slave-ship fleet in 1806 was estimated to be almost 75% the size of that of the British. [117]: 63, 65
African resistance movements were carried out in every phase of the slave trade to resisting marches to the slave holding stations, resistance at the slave coast, and resistance on slave ships. [176] On July 1, 1839, enslaved Mende people aboard the Amistad revolted and took control of the ship. This incident led to a Supreme Court case in 1841 ...
Aboard ships, the captives were not always willing to follow orders. Sometimes they reacted in violence. Slave ships were designed and operated to try to prevent the slaves from revolting. Resistance among the slaves usually ended in failure and participants in the rebellion were punished severely.
It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of the slave ship they were on, and refused to submit to slavery in the United States. The event's moral value as a story of resistance towards slavery has symbolic importance in African American folklore as the flying Africans legend, and in literary history.