imagine thinking segregation wasn’t and isn’t still to this day enforced by a constant stream of political violence/terrorism and the ever present threat of both at the hands of the state and its allied paramilitary forces.
i wonder if this guy thinks that slavery lasted so long because it was “normal”, and not because states like Virginia had something like one of every 3 able bodied white dudes organized into a rapid response counter-insurrectionary force to stamp out the constant stream of disorganized resistance before it could explode into a full rebellion.
Eugene Genovese, in his comprehensive study of slavery, Roll, Jordan, Roll, sees a record of “simultaneous accommodation and resistance to slavery.” The resistance included stealing property, sabotage and slowness, killing overseers and masters, burning down plantation buildings, running away. Even the accommodation “breathed a critical spirit and disguised subversive actions.” Most of this resistance, Genovese stresses, fell short of organized insurrection, but its significance for masters and slaves was enormous. https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnslaem10.html
Also as WEB DuBois points out organized resistance did happen constantly. It just formed in intelligent networks of escape than violent uprisings of doom. The coast of Georgia, the territory of Florida, and Canada were all means of escape.
Guerrila warfare is often done by people who view the land as their home. Slaves did not view America as a homeland, so their resistance method was to escape.
imagine thinking segregation wasn’t and isn’t still to this day enforced by a constant stream of political violence/terrorism and the ever present threat of both at the hands of the state and its allied paramilitary forces.
i wonder if this guy thinks that slavery lasted so long because it was “normal”, and not because states like Virginia had something like one of every 3 able bodied white dudes organized into a rapid response counter-insurrectionary force to stamp out the constant stream of disorganized resistance before it could explode into a full rebellion.
Also as WEB DuBois points out organized resistance did happen constantly. It just formed in intelligent networks of escape than violent uprisings of doom. The coast of Georgia, the territory of Florida, and Canada were all means of escape.
Guerrila warfare is often done by people who view the land as their home. Slaves did not view America as a homeland, so their resistance method was to escape.