## Resistance and confrontation: between enslavement and freedom  
In the general context of the historical experience of African diasporas in the Americas, the Colombian Pacific scenario exemplifies a fundamental and meaningful dynamic in the social, cultural and historical endeavours of AfroColombian peoples. In this area, African and Afro-Atlantic shades took on particular stand-out features, some of them associated with, or analogous to, certain natural habitats and African peoples. These included the construction of family networks of wide-scale cognitive scope, in addition to permanent colonization and amphibian culture, as we will discuss. It could be said that the African diaspora represents the conversion of the Atlantic experience into the Pacific one, which may well have spread out from Mexico's Pacific coasts to the southern tip of the Americas.  
Nevertheless, what has perhaps made the greatest mark on the history of Afro-Colombian peoples in the Pacific is the manner in which the spectre of confrontation was faced or resolved within the structure of political and social domination and the context of enslavement, colonialism and capitalism. Two cross-sectional, large-scale effects characterized such confrontation: on the one hand, a consistent creative disposition to subvert the ruling order or  
regime, particularly that of slavery; on the other, and as a consequence, the varied but constant composition of community fabric for collective and signature action. This, in reality, was reflected in a prodigious scenario of social, political and community movements that stood up to the various powers threatening their historically constructed territorialism, including officially sanctioned, guerrilla and paramilitary violence, as well as drug trafficking and political and administrative corruption.