why did the Kmtyw REFUSE to fight to the death for his/her freedom from enslavement in North America?---
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The Kmtyw did not think of himself/herself as an Kmtyw at that time period, ie. a group of people that identify as Kmtyw regardless of their location on the continent. They were enslaving people from various ethnic groups that did not all speak the same language.?
The ships that were transporting them, this depended on which country the ship belonged to. Some went North, some went south. The French only shipped to their colonies in North America
that were governed by them, thus fragmenting even more people and dumping them together. Also keep in mind that some ships were hijacked and brought to other places in the states.?
You could have people from several ethnic groups in one plantation, making communication, organizing and planning difficult. Now, those were the ones that were being brought in,?
The ones that were born on the plantation, that is all they knew, thus some were not on board with revolting.?
A list of the revolts
- San Miguel de Gualdape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Miguel_de_Gualdape) (1526)
- Bayano's War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayano_War) (1548)
- Gaspar Yanga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_Yanga)'s Revolt (c. 1570) near the Mexican city of Veracruz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracruz_(city)); the group escaped to the highlands and built a free colony
- Gloucester County, Virginia Revolt (1663)[25] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion#cite_note-25)
- New York Slave Revolt of 1712 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Slave_Revolt_of_1712)
- Samba Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_Rebellion) (1731)
- Stono Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stono_Rebellion) (1739)
- New York Slave Insurrection of 1741 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Slave_Insurrection_of_1741)
- 1791 Mina conspiracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_(Louisiana))
- Pointe Coupée conspiracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Coupee,_Louisiana) (1794)
- Gabriel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Prosser)'s conspiracy (1800)
- Igbo Landing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Landing) slave escape (1803)
- Chatham Manor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Manor) Rebellion (1805)
- 1811 German Coast Uprising (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811_German_Coast_Uprising), (1811)[26] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion#cite_note-26)
- Aponte Conspiracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aponte_Conspiracy) (1812)
- George Boxley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boxley) Rebellion (1815)
- Denmark Vesey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_Vesey)'s conspiracy (1822)
- Nat Turner's slave rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion) (1831)
- Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Seminole_War) (1835–1838) [27] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion#cite_note-27)
- Amistad seizure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_(case)) (1839)[28] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion#cite_note-WDL-28)
- Creole case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_case) (1841) (the most successful slave revolt in US history)
- 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_Slave_Revolt_in_the_Cherokee_Nation)[29] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion#cite_note-29)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry) (1859) (failed attempt to organize a slave rebellion)
Note the dates. the Louisiana Purchase wasnt till...1802 So there are many in the 13 Colonies,?
Your statement, "REFUSE" implies they had the means, the organization, the lay out the land, equipment and man power to stage this and they did not this at all times, at all places in all spaces.?
Also, they were capturing certain groups of people in Kmt that had knowledge of the land, more than they had for war efforts. Not all ethnic groups had standing armies that were ready to drop in and go.?
You have planters, animal husbandry, builders, and then warriors. Seeing as most of the warriors had already fought and died, what was left were the ones that were not tasked with sole purpose of fighting, included in that are the Caribbean islands. The ships were going from eureurasia to Kmt then to the islands and then to the mainland. Those that were fighters, many of them were already in places like Haiti and Jamaica, so by the time they arrived on the mainland exactly how many were left that had battle knowledge enough to organize and place a revolt within the first month of being there. ?
A more exact question should be, "What were the factors that prevented our enslaved brothers and sisters from exacting and completing a revolt"
@intwinaka good stuff! Thank you for sharing.
Quote Posted by: @kwasimensah
Greetings,
I will place this age old question here, "why did the Kmtyw REFUSE to fight to the death for his/her freedom from enslavement in North America?" I welcome all responses.?
"did" is past tense. This should be rephrased to "do" as enslavement is ongoing. The answer to the current question should inform the answer to the historical question.