Adds to the proposition made

rmrd0000 — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:39:37 +0000

In reply to The Long War Against Slavery

Adds to the proposition made by the 1619 Project that much of the fight against slavery was fought by the enslaved alone.

In a new book, historian Vincent Brown argues that these rebellions did more to end the slave trade than all the measures taken by white abolitionists like Johnson. “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” (Belknap) focuses on one of the biggest slave uprisings of the 18th century, when a thousand male and female slavers in Jamaica, led by a man named Tacky rebelled, causing tens of thousands of pounds of property damage, killing sixty white people and resulting in the deaths of five hundred people who participated or were accused of doing so. Brown’s most interesting assertion is that Tacky and his comrades did not undertake an act of quiet rebellion but, on the contrary, fought one of the many battles in a long war between the slave traders and the slaves. Philosopher John Locke and self-emancipated writer Igbo Olaudah Equiano defined slavery as a state of war, but Brown went further, describing the transatlantic slave trade as “a borderless slave war: war to enslave, war to extend slavery and war against slaves, responded on the side of the slaves by the war against the slavers, and also the war between the slaves themselves. “

https://themediatimes.com/the-long-war-against-slavery/

Looks like another good read

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