slave rebellion in latin america
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Dean Ruffel R.Flandez
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The Latin American Slave
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The Latin American Slave
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According to Hegel, description of historycan bereferred to as the process wherebythe spirit becomes
actual of itself in the consciousness of freedom.
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The Uprisingy In the New World (theAmericas), as earlyas 1512,
black slaves had escaped from Spanish and Portuguese
owners and either joined indigenous peoples or ekedout a living on theirown.
yWhen runawayslaves banded together and subsistedindependentlytheywere called Maroons.
ySeeking to separate themselves from whites, theMaroons gained in power and amid increasinghostilities, theyraided and pillaged plantations andharassed planters until the planters began to fear a
mass slave revolt.
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JamaicaThe Jamaican Maroons are generallycharacterized asrunawayslaves who fought the British during the 18thcentury, and the name is still used todayfor theirmodern descendants.In 1739-40 the British governor in Jamaica signed a treaty
with the Maroons, promising them 2500 acres (10 km)in two locations. Theywere toremain in their five main
townsAccompong,TrelawnyTown, Mountain Top, ScotsHall, NannyTown, living under theirown chief with aBritish supervisor. In exchange, theyagreed not toharbour new runawayslaves, but rather to help catchthem.
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JamaicaIn 1796 about 600 Jamaican Maroons fromTrelawneyTown were deported fromJamaica to Nova
Scotia following theirrebellion against the colonialgovernment.
The British government decided it would be better tosend them to Freetown in Sierra Leone (WestAfrica)
rather than tryto persuade them to farm in a coldclimate of Canada, and the survivors were deportedthere in 1800.
To this day, the Maroons in Jamaica are to a small extent
autonomous and separate from Jamaican culture.
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HaitiThe mawon formed close-knit communities whichpracticed small-scale agriculture and
hunting. Certain mawon factions became formidableenough that theymade treaties with local colonialauthorities, sometimes negotiating theirownindependence in exchange for helping to hunt downother escaped slaves.
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PanamaCimarrones in Panama, were enslaved Africans who hadescaped from their Spanish masters and lived together as
outlaws.In the 1570s, theyallied with Sir FrancisDrake of England to defeat the Spanish conquest and
plunder theirriches.
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Honduras, Belize, Guatemala,Nicaragua
The Garinagu (singularGarifuna) are descendants
of Carib, Arawak and WestAfrican people. The Britishcolonial administration used the term Black CaribandGarinagu to distinguish them from Yellow and RedCarib,theAmerindian population that did not intermarrywith
Africans.
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French Guiana and SurinamessIn SouthAmerica, slaverywas the norm.
Their treatment was bad, and slaves have escaped to the
jungle from the start. TheseMaroons (alsoknown as"Djukas" or "Bakabusi Nengre") attacked the plantationsin order to acquire goods that were in short supplyand tofind themselves women.
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BrazilAquilombo is a Brazilian hinterland settlement foundedbypeople ofAfrican origin,Quilombolas, or Maroons.
Most of the inhabitants of quilombos were escapedslaves and, in some cases, a minorityofmarginalised Portuguese, Brazilianaboriginals, Jews and Arabs, and/orother non-black,non-slave Brazilians who experienced oppression duringcolonization.
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BrazilThe most famous quilombo was Palmares, anindependent, self-sustaining republic near Recife,
established in about 1600. Part of the reason for themassive size of the quilombo at Palmares was because ofits location in Brazil, which was at the median pointbetween theAtlantic Ocean and Guinea, an importantarea of theAfrican slave trade.
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Colombia and EcuadorEscaped slaves established independent communitiesalong the remote Pacific coast, outside of the reach of
the colonial administration
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y Slaves escaped frequentlywithin the first generation of
their arrival fromAfrica and often preservedtheir African languages and much of theirculture andreligion.
y Individual groups of Maroons often allied themselves
with the local indigenous tribes and occasionallyassimilated into these populations.
y Theysometimes developed Creole languages bymixing European tongues with theiroriginalAfrican
languages. One such Maroon Creole language, inSuriname, is Saramaccan.