Forms of resistance to slavery

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ID20051775
AuthorsMichael Craton (corresponding author)
Year2003
Pages222-270
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGeneral History of the Caribbean (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-73770-3_8
OpenAlexW2493818258
ISBN9781349737703
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited38

EVEN such self-interested and racist planter writers of the Caribbean as Edward Long, Elie Moreau de Saint Méry and Bryan Edwards recognized that slave resistance was as inevitable as slavery itself.1 Slaves 'naturally' resisted their enslavement because slavery was fundamentally unnatural. Slave resistance of one kind or another was a constant feature of slavery. Only the forms varied across time and place, according to circumstances and opportunities, mutating in rhythm to an internal dynamic, if not also in relation to the larger historical context. This chapter defines the forms of slave resistance, and describes how, if at all, they fitted into an historical process

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