Week 4: Slave Responses And King Of Congos

Question 1

Responses to Enslavement (3)

Answer 1

1. Religion
2. Music and Dance
3. Food

Question 2

Why accept Catholicism (3)

Answer 2

1. Spanish and Portuguese coercion
2. African open mindedness
3. Key qualities of Catholicism

Question 3

Key qualities of Catholicism (3)

Answer 3

1. Loving, forgiving, sacrificial god
2. Virgin Mary
3. Beautiful, appealing rites

Question 4

How did enslaved African practice Catholicism (3)

Answer 4

1. Confradias (brotherhoods) to honor black saints (Virgin of Rosary, Saint Benedict, etc)
2. Music and Dance
3. Investing Catholic Deities and saints w/ qualities of African orishas (embodiments of nature)

Question 5

Music and dance forms

Answer 5

Brazil (samba)
Dominican Republic (merengue)
Central America (cumbia)

Question 6

El Rey de los congos (document)

Answer 6

Conflict between Manuel (sargento mayor) and Pablo (soldier).

• says had a slave crowned king, insulted wife, disrespected him, doesn’t follow orders

Question 7

Viceroy

Answer 7

Someone who rules in place of the king (for colonies)

Question 8

Companies of Free Blacks

Answer 8

Black militia unit tasked with capturing escaped slaves and returning them, and stopping slave dances (Manuel Farias and Pablo Aguero)

Question 9

Responses to Enslavement pt 2. (4)

Answer 9

1. Rebellion
2. Flight
3. Crime
4. Negotiation/ bargaining

Question 10

Rebellion

Answer 10

1. Not common (cluster in beginning and end of colonial period (1500s and late 1700s-1800s); official controls weak and imports of male African slaves increased)
2. Almost never successful (Haiti is an exception)
3. Haiti inspired a wave of slave rebellions

Question 11

Flight

Answer 11

1. Very common
2. In cities, fled for short duration, negotiated with owners about terms of their return
3. In countryside, fled to remote areas and joined fugitive slave encampments
4. Hundreds of settlements scattered colonies that still exist

Question 12

Crime (3 types)

Answer 12

1. Murder and assault against slave owners and overseers (not common, met with brutal repercussions. Was a worry though)
2. Murder and assault among enslaved people (more common because of proximity and tensions of brutal conditions; plantations, slaves armed with machetes)
3. Property theft (Very common, slaves views their situation as theft; owners stealing their lives)

Question 13

Negotiation and bargaining

Answer 13

1. Slow down, sabotage work
2. Withhold gold in gold fields
3. Running away
4. Appealing to royal officials and courts
5. Domestic slavery (ties and bonds between slave and owner)
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6. More and better food
7. Reduced labor
8. Free time
9. Live by themselves
10. Freedom