A historian analyzing colonial plantation records and runaway advertisements from the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry regions identifies a recurring pattern: many enslaved individuals retained West African names—such as Cuffee (derived from the Akan day-name Kofi, for a male born on Friday) and Quasheba (derived from Kishee or Akan day-names for females)—alongside or in place of European names imposed by enslavers. The persistence of these naming patterns among enslaved populations best illustrates which of the following historical developments?
- The covert preservation of African cultural systems as a form of everyday resistance against the dehumanizing effects of chattel slaveryCevap
- BA cultural phenomenon that had little impact on plantation dynamics due to its lack of direct confrontation or armed rebellion
- CThe formation of autonomous grand maroonage societies that successfully negotiated legal exemptions from colonial slave codes
- DThe revival of simplistic animistic beliefs that prevented enslaved individuals from adapting to monotheistic religious structures in the Americas
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The covert preservation of African cultural systems as a form of everyday resistance against the dehumanizing effects of chattel slavery
The retention of West African day-names is a prime example of cultural retention functioning as a covert form of everyday resistance. By insisting on naming practices that carried specific cosmological and familial meaning from their societies of origin, enslaved people asserted their own humanity and self-determination against the dehumanizing logic of chattel slavery, which sought to erase their history and identity.
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Everyday Resistance and Cultural Retention
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