AHL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Slave Rebellion, French Revolution, Saint-Domingue
13 Dec 2017
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To truly understand the history, we need the perspective of every party. Ideologies of race were not accepted without question by slaves. Using geography and landscape to avoid capture: retreat to mountainous areas, steep terrain is a burden for hunters, advantage to seeing approaching captors. Walled cities: discouraging to attackers, easier defense. Shipboard: slaves significantly outnumbered crew, crew was terrified, responded to uprising with incredible brutality. Liability for cost of slaves killed: 10% saw some sort or rebellion. They were 5x more likely for a rebellion. European slave buyers wanted to know where the slaves were from because there were (cid:862)understandings(cid:863) a(cid:271)out the different types of people. They identified people to their (cid:272)ountries or regions by country marks tied to local culture. As the slave trade progressed, more people from coastal regions were being sold. African rulers started selling their own people because the money was good. With the political instability in senegambia many thousands of farmers sold to northwest.
