... least in part, to defy their masters. While slaveowners demanded total obedience from their slaves, it is easy to see that unconditional submission was never fully achieved. In more recent writing on enslaved women, there is much mention on the identity slaves forged for themselves, which was developed through various modes of resistance. In a 2002 essay titled "The Pleasures of ... ...

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... and substructure of the amorphous, heterogeneous American (as opposed to European) working class. A hint of this pessimism/realism is suggested in his inclusion in "City Trenches" of a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: The native born and the ... ...

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