African Abolition Struggles and Opposition Movements
Resistance during the Middle Passage
Resistance on Plantations
Runaways and Maroon Wars, 1600-1800
The Haitian Revolution
European and American Anti-Slavery Movements
Resistance on Plantations - Useful links
Timeline of 'New World' Slave Uprisings
This page looks at slave rebellions in the Caribbean and the Americas.
http://www.swagga.com/revolts.htm
Women's Resistance
This University of Miami Library site looks at the role of African women as weapons of resistance on plantations through a powerful series of linked essays.
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/slaves/womens_
resistance/womens.html
The Meaning of Resistance
Available as a .PDF document or in .HTML format, this UK schools site examines the meaning of passive and active resistance by asking younger students to imagine themselves as slaves.
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/blackpeoples/slaveresistance.pdf
Religion and Resistance
Another University of Miami Library site, here the focus is on the role of African religious systems (obeah/santeria/candomble) and how they threatened the plantation system.
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/slaves/Religion/religion.html
