Read the excerpt from William Snelgrave’s *A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade* (1734):
'I asked them why they had mutinied... One of them, who could speak a little English, answered that I was a great rogue to buy them and carry them away from their own country, and that they were resolved to gain their liberty if they could... I told them they were now my property, and that they must submit. But they replied that they would rather die than be kept as slaves, and that if they had another opportunity, they would rise again.'
Which of the following historical conclusions is best supported by the excerpt?
- AEnslaved Africans relied exclusively on covert methods of everyday resistance to survive, as shipboard conditions made overt mutinies impossible.
- Enslaved Africans actively resisted their captivity and asserted their right to liberty, directly challenging their status as commodities.Cevap
- CCaptive resistance during the Middle Passage was limited to desperate acts of self-harm, as enslaved people lacked the organization to stage coordinated rebellions.
- DShipboard uprisings in the early eighteenth century led directly to the immediate legal prohibition of the British transatlantic slave trade.
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Enslaved Africans actively resisted their captivity and asserted their right to liberty, directly challenging their status as commodities.
The excerpt demonstrates that the captives organized a mutiny and verbally asserted their natural right to liberty, directly challenging the slave trader's claim that they were property. This highlights the agency of enslaved people and their active resistance to being treated as commodities.
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Middle Passage Resistance and Enslaved Agency