{"id":6296,"date":"2016-02-21T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2023-12-16T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T21:37:04","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-february-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Mutinied Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

An excerpt regarding the slave trade:<\/p>\n

Many Africans resisted enslavement at every step in their forced emigration. Conscious of the wrongs they suffered, they began trying to escape on the long march to the coast. Failing this and suicide attempts while still in sight of their native shores, the Africans often mutinied while being transported to the New World and killed their white captors. In spite of their chains and lack of arms, they rebelled so frequently that a number of ship owners took out insurance to cover losses from mutinies. In their study of the slave trade, Mannix and Cowley uncovered fairly detailed accounts of fifty-five mutinies on slavers from 1699 to 1845, not to mention the passing references to more than a hundred others. The list of ships “cut off” by the natives – often in revenge for the kidnapping of freemen – is almost as long. On the record it does not seem that Africans submitted tamely to being carried across the Atlantic like chained beasts.<\/p>\n

Middle Passage:
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Culled from:\u00a0The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South<\/a><\/p>\n

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Morbid Mirth Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

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Thanks to Sean <\/strong>for the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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