Actually I used to think the same thing as you before I educated myself regarding the history.I call bullshit. Less than 1% revolted.Probably because most of them had no interest in revolting.I just finished a part of the book "The Americas" by Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood which describes how slaves found it hard to communicate due to cultural and language barriers between them. These barriers persisted which helped the white slave owners since the slaves couldn't organize and revolt.
So the question is when and how did the slaves learn English, and if they did before the Civil War why didnt they revolt?
That's absurd. They revolted, rose up, and escaped whenever they could, from the very first Africans brought here five hundred years ago. As has already been documented here. Wtf do you think the Underground Railroad was? A city tourist trap in Atlanta? Why would there be laws all over the place about fugitive slaves? Why was it made illegal to teach blacks English?? Why did slave traders deliberately select mutually nonintelligible language groups and group them together?
All to try to control slave revolts, that's why.
And again, the second independent republic in the Americas was born out of a slave revolt. that would be 1803.
You see here in America they had adequate food and shelter. And they could go to sleep without worrying that a neighboring tribe was going to raid their villiage and slaughter half the people in the middle of the night.
I see you have a troubled relationship with historical fact. What the hell gives you the idea that life in bondage, dehumanization, being sold like cattle, being whipped into submission, having one's family torn apart, being murdered and raped with regularity and impunity, let alone being worked into the ground, would be preferable to your inane fantasy idea of "village raids in the middle of the night"?
Oh and while we're at it --- LINK for your "less than 1%" is where?