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1744:The Cul-de-Sac “Strike”: Sixty-six captives in Cul-de-Sac initiate a strike and desert the estat

1744:The Cul-de-Sac “Strike”: Sixty-six captives in Cul-de-Sac initiate a strike and desert the estate. Their collective action against a brutal overseer represented an early form of organized labor resistance. Nuance: This flight (marronage) was a negotiation tactic. By acting collectively against a specific overseer, they demonstrated an early form of “industrial” resistance within the plantation machine.

Source Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 68; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 23