History Activity: Struggles and Resistance to Slavery

History activity, aimed at students in the fourth year of elementary school, with questions developed about the struggles and resistance to slavery.

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Struggles and resistances

There were various forms of resistance to slavery: suicides, murders of overseers and masters, in addition to sabotage at work, but the most common was flight.
Those who fled used to hide in the woods or on the outskirts of cities; alone or in groups, they organized themselves in order to survive. Some of them formed communities that were called quilombos. These communities were, in general, in hidden places in the middle of the forest and had protection systems against attacks. There were some quilombos close to urban centers and, in these places, the quilombolas, as the inhabitants of the quilombos were known, maintained contact and trade with the local population.

The quilombolas grew their own food, raised animals, hunted, fished, worked with mining and set up small workshops, where they manufactured their clothes, furniture and tools for work.
The justice system in the quilombos was quite severe. Crimes of adultery, robbery, desertion and murder were punishable even with the death penalty. Life in the quilombo was communal. The quilombolas shared tasks and production. There, they could organize themselves according to their customs and traditions, both those brought from Africa and those acquired in Brazil.
The most famous of all the quilombos was that of Palmares, considered the largest community of runaway slaves in Brazil. The repression of the lords and the government authorities was very strong both for the escapes and for all other forms of resistance to slavery.

Questions

1) Did the enslaved accept their situation? Justify your answer.
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2) What were the forms of resistance to slavery used by the enslaved?
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3) What were the quilombos?
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4) How was life in the quilombos?
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5) Why is the word quilombo used as a synonym for resistance?
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Per Camila Farias.

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