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We do not need to lose any more time and energy to prove that Afri-
can slaves in the Americas were not the doc ile sambos portrayed by cer-
tain writers. We now need to study the dynamics of slave resistance in
the same vein that European pre-industrial rebels have been studied by
Hobsbawm and o thers.
This article is a comparative essay about slave rebellions in the Ame-
ricas. I t discusses forms, trends, conducive factores of the revolts and
why certain slave societies experienced more slave unrest than others. I t
also discusses the organization, leadershb and ideological forms behind
which slave rebels waged their struggles. The questions of ethincity and
acculturation are discussed in connection to the dep th, in tensity and
forms of slave resistance.