THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS
In the United States and the Caribbean especially, it is the institution of slavery that begins the development of Black centered political ideologies. To understand the formation of Black politics in the United States and the Caribbean, an analysis of Black freedom fighters against slavery is very necessary. Though they may not have known it at the time, these freedom fighters who struck blow after blow against the institution of slavery began the rallying cry for Black unity, freedom, rights and power. |
Outright rebellion was not unknown throughout the slaving world. It came on the slave ships as in the famous Amistad Mutiny. It came in Jamaica under the Maroons, escaped slaves who formed independent societies from which to attack their former masters. It came in Haiti under the leadership of Touissant L'Overture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. It came in Trinidad in the Dagga Rebellion. It came to America in 1526 where Africans and their native allies rebelled against Spanish rule. Plots of rebellion and liberation were neverending thoughts on the minds of Africans, both slave and free.
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Touissant L'Overture and the Haitian Revolution