Also known as: shipboard resistance, resistance at sea, slave-ship resistance
Last updated: April 23, 2026
The Slave Ship: A Human History and Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage both insist that resistance at sea was not marginal. Captives challenged the trade at nearly every stage, from pre-embarkation uprising to collective revolt aboard ship and self-destructive refusal when other means failed. This matters because it pushes back against any narrative in which resistance begins only on the plantation.
resistance — Adjacent resistance history
His account records the forms of terror, despair, and attempted resistance aboard the slave ship — providing witness testimony for the shipboard resistance cluster in the knowledge graph.
August 1791 Uprising
Middle Passage
Poison And Resistance
Shipmate Kinship
Slave Ship
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