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• 26 Feb 10
  

  Emily C.
  • "Day-to-day resistance" was the most    common form of opposition to slavery.
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       Running away was another form of resistance
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  • • Slavery involved a constant process of negotiation    as slaves bargained over the
    • Often, runaways were relatively    privileged slaves who had served as river boatmen or coachmen and were familiar    with the outside world.
    • "maroon colonies."
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  Sallie Mesker
  • "Day-to-day resistance" was the most    common form of opposition to slavery.
  • Breaking tools, feigning illness,    staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage--all were forms    of resistance and expression of slaves' alienation from their masters.
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  • • Violent rebellion was rarer and smaller in scale in the American South than    in Brazil or the Caribbean, reflecting the relatively small proportion of    blacks in the southern population, the low proportion of recent migrants    from Africa, and the relatively small size of southern plantations.
    • In general, Africans were more likely than New Worldborn slaves    to participate in outright revolts. Not only did many Africans have combat    experience prior to enslavement, but they also had fewer family and communities    ties that might inhibit violent insurrection.
        
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  emily parker
  • "Day-to-day resistance"
  • . Breaking tools, feigning illness,    staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage
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    • they were temporarily withholding their labor as a form of economic    bargaining and negotiation.
    • onstant process of negotiation
    • Some fugitives did try to permanently escape slavery.
    • Often, runaways were relatively    privileged slaves who had served as river boatmen or coachmen and were familiar    with the outside world.
    • "maroon colonies."
    • , when masters    we
    • Slave revolts were most likely when slaves outnumbered whites
    • absent, during periods of economic distress, and when there was a split    within the ruling elite. They
    • when large numbers of    native-born Africans had been brought into an area at one time.
    • mass executions of black
    • 37 blacks
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    • reflecting the relatively small proportion of    blacks in the southern population,
    • low proportion of recent migrants    from Africa, and the relatively small size of southern plantations.
    • slaves outnumbered whites by ten or eleven    to one
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  Carlyn Christian
  • "Day-to-day resistance"
  • Breaking tools, feigning illness,    staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage--
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  • • Running away was another form of resistance.
    • temporarily withholding their labor as a form of economic    bargaining and negotiatio
    • involved a constant process of negotiation    as slaves bargained over the pace of work, the amount of free time they    would enjoy, monetary rewards, access to garden plots, and the freedom to    practice burials, marriages, and religious ceremonies free from white oversight.
    • Some fugitives did try to permanently escape slavery
    • fugitive slaves tried to form runaway    communities known as "maroon colonies
    • seized    arms, killed whites, and burned house
    • Slave revolts were most likely when slaves outnumbered whites, when masters    were absent, during periods of economic distress, and when there was a split    within the ruling elit
    • when large numbers of    native-born Africans had been brought into an area at one time
    • The main result of slave insurrections was the mass executions of blacks.
    • Violent rebellion was rarer and smaller in scale in the American South than    in Brazil or the Caribbean, reflecting the relatively small proportion of    blacks in the southern population, the low proportion of recent migrants    from Africa, and the relatively small size of southern plantations
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  Tommy Laughlin
  • "Day-to-day resistance" was the most    common form of opposition to slavery. Breaking tools, feigning illness,    staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage--all were forms    of resistance and expression of slaves' alienation from their masters.
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       Running away
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  • • withholding their labor as a form of economic    bargaining and negotiation.
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         The main result of slave insurrections was the mass executions of blacks
    • In the South, the preconditions    for successful rebellion did not exist, and tended to bring increased suffering    and repression to the slave community
    • In general, Africans were more likely than New Worldborn slaves    to participate in outright revolts
• 25 Feb 10
  

  Kate Pflager
  • "Day-to-day resistance" was the most    common form of opposition to slavery.
  • 
       Running away was another form of resistance.
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  • • they were temporarily withholding their labor as a form of economic    bargaining and negotiation.
    • 
         Some fugitives did try to permanently escape slavery.
    • Often, runaways were relatively    privileged slaves who had served as river boatmen or coachmen and were familiar    with the outside world.
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         During the early eighteenth century there were slave uprisings in Long Island    in 1708 and in New York City in 1712.
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         Slave revolts were most likely when slaves outnumbered whites, when masters    were absent, during periods of economic distress, and when there was a split    within the ruling elite. They were also most common when large numbers of    native-born Africans had been brought into an area at one time.
    • result of slave insurrections was the mass executions of blacks.
    • In general, Africans were more likely than New Worldborn slaves    to participate in outright revolts. Not only did many Africans have combat    experience prior to enslavement, but they also had fewer family and communities    ties that might inhibit violent insurrection.
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  Corbin Nichols
  • "Day-to-day resistance" was the most    common form of opposition to slavery. Breaking tools, feigning illness,    staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage--all were forms    of resistance and expression of slaves' alienation from their masters.
  • Stono Rebellion in 1739, when they seized    arms, killed whites, and burned houses.
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  • • During the late eighteenth century,    slave revolts erupted in Guadeloupe, Grenada, Jamaica, Surinam, San Domingue    (Haiti), Venezuela, and the Windward Island and many fugitive slaves, known    as maroons, fled to remote regions and carried on guerrilla warfare (during    the 1820s, a fugitive slave named Bob Ferebee led a band in fugitive slaves    in guerrilla warfare in Virginia
    • Slave revolts were most likely when slaves outnumbered whites, when masters    were absent, during periods of economic distress, and when there was a split    within the ruling elite.
    • Following Nat    Turner's insurrection, the local militia killed about 100 blacks and 20    more slaves, including Turner, were later executed. In the South, the preconditions    for successful rebellion did not exist, and tended to bring increased suffering    and repression to the slave community.
    • In Jamaica, slaves outnumbered whites by ten or eleven    to one; in the South, a much larger white population was committed to suppressing    rebellion.

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