# Conclusion  
Enslaved females fought against their condition on a daily basis by performing their work slowly or sabotaging domestic or agricultural production. In some cases they were even responsible for the murder of their masters or for slave revolts. Other mechanisms of resistance included escape and the subsequent formation of quilombola communities in the Americas and on the African continent. Men, women and children resisted capture and enslavement on a constant basis. One such example dates to the end of the seventeenth century, when Juana governed a community known as cimarrón from Matudere in Cartagena for a total of twenty years (Landers, 2013, pp. 7-23). There is also evidence dating from the nineteenth century of women participating in revolts, such as the case of Ana Rita, who was imprisoned for suspected participation in the Malé Revolt in Bahia in 1835 (Brito, 2016, pp. 167-68; Reis, 1993, pp. 56 and 171). Despite the fact that historiography discusses the flight to freedom as a possibility only for males, recent research has shown that women did not just participate in escapes, but actually played an important role in their organization, selecting routes and forming the communities known as quilombos or palenques whether in Angola, the colony of Brazil, the Southern United States, Nova Granada or Cartagena (modern-day Colombia), or the various Caribbean countries under the Caribbean slavery regime (Heintze, 1995; Freudenthal, 1997, pp. 109-34; Ferreira, 2014, pp. 65-90; Krauthamer, 2008, pp. 100-27; Glymph, 2008, pp. 107-08; Fuentes, 2016, pp. 16-21; Krug, 2018, chap. 5).