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Quick questions on Resistance by enslaved people - SQA National 5 History
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What is everyday resistance?Show answer
Most resistance was not open revolt but the daily refusal to co-operate fully. Enslaved people worked as slowly as they dared, pretended to be ill, broke tools, and damaged crops and equipment to reduce the planter's profit. These acts were hard to prove and individually small, but together they were a constant drag on the system and a way of asserting some control in a situation of total subjection.
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Give two everyday ways enslaved people resisted slavery. [2 marks]
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Why was keeping African culture alive a form of resistance? [2 marks]
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Give two reasons large-scale revolts were difficult to organise. [2 marks]
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