Slavery

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The paper identifies three types of resistance and five methods of defense that were employed by slaves. The paper also looks at three methods that were utilized by slave owners to elicit compliance and counteract the resistance of slaves. The paper portrays this constant power struggle where the identities of both slaves and slave owners were altered in a way that no other system could have altered them. The paper concludes with an analysis of the long term effects of slavery on American society.

From the Paper:

"The era of African-American slavery in the United States was relatively short lived and yet it has produced an enduring and lasting legacy. As labor systems go, one of the most inefficient of systems is a forced labor system, as individuals engaged in it gain no benefit from their labor and the vested interest is held only by those in power. Slavery as it existed from the late 1700s to the end of the Civil War is a clear example of such a system. Due to the infrastructure of the system there were many examples of both active and passive resistance and defenses exhibited by the slave as well as many examples of methods of control exhibited by slave owners to squelch resistance and defense."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bancroft, Frederic. Slave Trading in the Old South. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1959.
• Davis, Olga Idriss. "The Rhetoric of Quilts: Creating Identity in African-American Children's Literature." African American Review 32, no. 1 (1998): 67.
• Eyerman, Ron. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Perry, Shauneille. "'Blacker Than You, Brother Man': Minstrelsy's Poisoned History Bamboozles a Compendium of Jim Crow Plays." American Theatre, February 2004, 67.
• Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1959.

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