Old African American Slave Rebellions

Although it was very limited, slaves were able to benefit a little during this time period. For example, they developed their own culture, including a religion, which had some of their old African traditions mixed in along with creating their own families. Although it was often that these families were broken apart due to the slave trade, they still had special bonds through marriage and children. Due to the lack of technology and education for slaves, there weren’t many large rebellions, but slaves resisted in a more subtle way. For instance, the slaves would purposefully do a poor job in the fields or sabotage the plantation owner's’ tools and crops to disrupt the output in the fields. Not all slaves resisted and some followed their masters