![]() In the 19th century a new name emerged, Nat, and This characterization went by many names, among Subhumans capable of unspeakable violence is an old one, and this portrayal certainly The characterization of Africans and their American descendants as surly, crazed, Two hundred and fifty documented cases of organized slave rebellions in the United According to Herbert Aptheker (1983), a historian, there were over Measures and others, slavers lived with the constant fear that slaves would rise upĪnd kill whites. Punished, publicly and harshly - including cropping ears, castrating, hanging, burning,Īnd mutilating the all-white army and militias were constantly on guard and, anyone,īlack or white advocating rebellion among the slaves could be lynched. ![]() ![]() Whites, including non-enslavers,įearing rebellion among the slaves, used many strategies to ensure that angry slavesĭid not rebel: slaves were routinely searched for weapons rebellious slaves were Loaded pistols at their sides" (Bremer, 1853, p. Who had a calm night's rest they then never lay down to sleep without a brace of One wealthy LouisianaĮnslaver stated, "I have known times here, when there was not a single planter (enslaver) Was a benevolent institution and plantations were filled with obedient, docile Sambos,īut Nats, real and imagined, dominated the white consciousness. Pro-slavery advocates may have tried to convince themselves and others that slavery It isĪlso not surprising that some slaves would hate their enslavers and want to physically Of their enslavers' desires to satisfy scatological and sadistic fantasies. That slaves, lacking real political, social, and economic power were often the victims The abuses of power and their expressions would be staggering. Of course, be some enslavers who are relatively kind, but with little or no socialĬontrol to regulate interactions between the superordinates (enslavers) and the subordinates, Have an entire society aligned against a race - all significant norms, values, beliefs,Īnd laws legitimizing the victimization of the "subordinated others." There would, Institutions: government, education, economy, religion, and family. Imagine this racial hierarchy being supported by all major societal Race: a society where the "subordinate" race is considered inferiors, subhumans, lesserĬhildren of God. Think of what it would be like for one race to have complete domination over another If they fled they were hunted, and when found, their backs whipped or their limbsĪmputated. They could not own property without the permission of their enslavers. Living under compulsory ignorance laws, slaves were beaten for learning to spell, At the whim of their enslavers they could be sold, separated from loved They were bred, theirĬhildren, like themselves, chattel property. Such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction.the master shall beįree of all punishment.as if such accident never happened." Slaves had no legal Slaves were insulted, spat on, slapped, punched, kicked, and beaten for sportĪnd "correction." In 1705, Virginia law stated, "If any slave resist his rrecting Legally real estate, sold in living rooms, churches, workplaces, and at public auction Humans are treated like chattel - thinking, feeling animals? Slaves were property, Slavery was an institution brutal beyond words. His master Nat wanted to kill his enslaver. "master" was all-consuming Nat hated his enslaver. Sambo was a devoted house servant Nat, an angry field hand. Loyal, dishonest, superstitious, improvident, and musical, Sambo was inevitably a Sambo,Ĭombining in his person Uncle Remus, Jim Crow, and Uncle Tom, was the most pervasiveĪnd long lasting of the three literary stereotypes. Overseers and planters, or burned plantation buildings when he was abused. Only when overcome by superior numbers of firepower, Nat retaliated when attackedīy whites, led guerrilla activities of maroons against isolated plantations, killed Of white women who defied all the rules of plantation society. Revengeful, bloodthirsty, cunning, treacherous, and savage, Nat was the ravager "Nat was the rebel who rivaled Sambo in the universality and continuity of his literary Blassingame (1972) contrasted the Sambo and Nat caricatures That three dominated: Sambo, a submissive, childlike buffoon Jack, a sullen, rational Prominent historian, reviewed slavery era literary stereotypes of black men and argued Nat portrayal was popularized during American slavery. The Nat caricature portrays African and African American males as angry, crazed, revengefulīrutes with a bloodthirsty hatred for whites.
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