Slave Resistance In unit one we learned the early development of Africa to the capturing of African American slaves. African American slaves were forced to fulfill hard tasked labor that wealthy landowners were not willing to do. Slaves were in no way shape or form compensated for their contributed labor. Therefore, slaves came up with ways to rebel against their captures and masters. These rebellions would start off small and turn into out of hand events. From being captured and brought onto ships, slaves rebelled by jumping off of slave ships to drown or starving themselves to death. When it came to being sold, slaves would fake an illness or change their mannerisms in goals of being a house slave. Slaves would also change their mannerism as a mean to be auctioned off to a "lesser evil' slave master. When owned slaves would analyze the mood of their master to get out of doing work. Some woman would fake being p...
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The Invasion of Africa One of Africa's most pivotal turning points, in history, begins with the Middle passage. Although Africa was past known for their resources such as trade in salt, livestock, gold, kola, iron technology, and clay as stated in From Slavery to Freedom pp. 2-6. This easily become overlooked by the invasion of the Europeans. This invasion played a hallmark on how Africans were soon to be looked upon and are still looked upon till this day. Olaudah Equiano, dispalyed in the photo above, was able to give the world an in-depth view of how shocking these actions were. Equiano referred to the Europeans as white long haired demons who possessed powers. From seeing their strange color of skin, language, animals, and the ability to stop a moving ship; Equiano found it best too already have accepted his fate of death. A culture so advanced speculated fear throughout the people. Equiano, among other captured slaves, wer...