Yeah, that ending scene pertaining to Leonardo’s character in “D’Jango” was further from the truth. There were many slave rebellions and revolts; from the Gullah, Maroons, and Black Seminoles.
As early as the 1650s, enslaved Africans escaped into the American wilderness to form their own separate communities — a New World adaptation of an African form of resistance. These maroons (or outlyers, as they were often called in North America) set up small communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although most focused on their own survival — building homes, raising crops and livestock, fortifying the community against attack — others engaged in guerilla warfare against neighboring plantations and provided a base to which other fugitives could flee.
Read more:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/index.html
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/Maroons/maroons.html
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/representations/repre…
http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/maroon/educational_guide…
Maroons: Rebel Slaves in the Americas
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Further ReadingsMintz, Sidney W., and Richard Price. The Birth of African-American Culture. Boston: Beacon, 1992. Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. Alabi’s World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. |
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