Most students will never learn about enslaved people's uprisings, and as a result, many Americans don't know much about the early beginnings of the Black Liberation Movement. Perhaps, public schools omit stories of uprisings because it cuts into the central myth White colonists perpetuated, that "slaves were fundamentally docile and content" and had no desire to live as free people. While this fairytale may have sounded great to White people benefitting socially and financially from keeping Black men, women, and children in perpetual bondage on plantations, history shows Black people consistently fought against their enslavement and were far from docile or content to endure.
There Are No Ethics In A Slave Revolt
I have reached the regrettable conclusion that ethics are a luxury for those in ivory towers and useless for those facing annihilation. What is…