What were the two main types of resistance to slavery?
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Download references What were the different types of resistance to slavery?Breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage--all were forms of resistance and expression of slaves' alienation from their masters. Running away was another form of resistance.
What was the most common form of slavery resistance?The most common form of overt resistance was flight. As early as 1640, slaves in Maryland and Virginia absconded from their enslavement, a trend that would grow into the thousands, and, eventually, tens of thousands by the time of the Civil War.
What were the major forms of resistance to slavery in the Caribbean?Armed revolt, plots of armed revolt and marronage was the most serious form of resistance. Marronage involved large numbers of enslaved workers escaping plantations and forming communities in colonies with forested and mountainous areas.
What forms of resistance did slaves resort to?Sometimes enslaved Africans would resort to more open or violent means of resistance, including the poisoning of animals and owners, and sometimes turned it against themselves by committing infanticide, self-mutilation and suicide.
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