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American Slavery

American slavery was the most oppressive form of slavery. Therefore, there are about 200 instances of slave revolts or rumored slave resistance between seventeenth century and Civil War. Slaves were not content and did every means to try to rebel against their masters.

Slaves who did not directly rebel made their masters’ lives miserable through a variety of indirect protests against slavery. These include sabotage, stealing, malingering, murder, arson, and infanticide. Many day to day resistance of plantation slaves took the forms of doing breaking tools, doing shoddy work, feigning illness, stealing, and running away. These resistance usually occurs when a master or overseer overstep customary bounds. Slaves tried to establish proper treatment through these acts. This was the slave’s way to express their opposition towards slavery.

There were major revolts (or attempted slave insurrections) before the Civil War. In 18

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