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See also: Why didn't the victims of the African slave trade rise up against the plantation owners? Or: Why didn't she fight back? General form: Why don't victi

• AstralStorm 8y ago
  They did, many times, and were invariably violently put down. Only much later they did succeed. Also remember that it was the most docile that were captured.
  • rosser 8y ago
    ...and many of the rest were killed, because they were resisting, and/or to cow others who might have tried to resist. You're missing the point: telling victims they're victiming wrong (literally, as in, "You're doing that wrong", which is so unbelievably much of this thread) is bullshit. It's especially so if you have no relevant experience on which to make that judgement, and that goes double if your likelihood of having that experience is structurally negligible. Hand-waving about how someone should handle something that has never — and, for practical purposes, will never — happen to you is ludicrous on its face. EDIT: Phrasing