Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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You know, one thing to think about is, you know, enslaved men and women were often very successful in freeing themselves individually and sometimes collectively by running away, by escaping, sometimes by, you know, murdering the families that held them, by establishing redoubts in the backcountry, in the hinterlands and maroon communities where they could establish their own freedom.
You know, the problem is that in the Americas anyway, the entire world was conceived in a way to keep enslaved men and women under control.
And it's hard to fully reckon with the degree of terror that was inflicted on enslaved men and women there.
from the moment they arrived in the Americas or from the moment that they came of age in the Americas, to know that if you crossed a line in any way, you could have an arm chopped off, you could have your hamstring torn, you could have an ear lopped off.
And so...
To ask the question of why not more rebellions, in some ways, I think really can be turned around.
It's extraordinary that there were any at all.
And it really speaks to that commitment, determination to be free.
The period of the Haitian Revolution is very unusual.
And so the distinctiveness of those events speaks to the distinctiveness of the moment.
I wouldn't quite put it that way.
I mean, I think...
The legitimacy of the system for those who were enslaved was always in question.
And for the fact of the matter is that not only did they regard their own enslavement as illegitimate, but they regarded the enslavement of people like them as illegitimate.
I mean, the critique of human bondage from those who were bound, we don't have their words in most instances, but we do have their actions.
And those who were free, who became free or freed themselves, were manumitted or escaped, in many instances, their freedom was fragile.
Because, and this is why race was so important, you could mark out those who had been slaves by the color of their skin.
And so they were always under threat.
And so they were always under threat.
And the danger of being re-enslaved was always there.
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