Term Two: Week 10: Runaways and Resistance

Gobbets

• Maroon reports
• Douglass ch 10
• Ball Ch 26

Questions

How did slaves resist slavery? Was running away a viable method of resistance? Were other methods of resistance more successful? What was the reaction of whites towards slave resistance?

Core Reading

• Wood, Betty, 'Some aspects of female resistance to chattel slavery in lowcountry Georgia, 1763-1815', Historical Journal, XXX, (1987), 603-622.
• Stephanie Camp, '"I could not stay there": Enslaved women, truancy and the geography of everyday forms of resistance in the antebellum planation South' S&A (Dec 2002) 
• Tim Lockley and David Doddington "Maroon and Slave Communities in South Carolina before 1865" South Carolina Historical Magazine 113.2 (April 2012), 125-145.

E-resources

• Johnson, Michael P., 'Runaway slaves and the slave communities in South Carolina, 1799-1830', WMQ, XXXVIII, (1981), 418-441. 
• Holland Braund, Kathryn E., 'The Creek Indians, blacks, and slavery', JSH, LVII, (1991), 601-636. 
• Meaders, Daniel E., 'South Carolina fugitives as viewed through local colonial newspapers with emphasis on runaway notices, 1732-1801', JNH, XL, (1975), 288-317. 
• Wood, Betty, 'Prisons, workhouses and the control of slave labour in lowcountry Georgia, 1763-1815', S&A, VIII, (1987), 247-271.
• Sommerville, Diane 'The rape myth in the old South reconsidered' JSH 61 (1995), 481-512
• Wood, Betty, 'White women, black slaves and the law in early national Georgia: the Sunbury petition of 1791', Historical Journal, XXXV, (1992), 611-622. 
• Flanigan, Daniel J, 'Criminal procedure in slave trials in the antebellum South' JSH 40(1974) 537-564
• Tusknet, Mark, 'Approaches to the study of the law of slavery' CWH 25 (1979) 329-338
• Morgan, Philip D., 'Colonial South Carolina runaways: their significance for slave culture', S&A, VI, (1985), 57-78.
• Hindus, Michael S., 'Black justice under white law: criminal prosecutions of blacks in antebellum South Carolina', JAH, LXIII, (1976), 575-599. 
• Lichtenstein, Alex, 'That disposition to theft, with which they have been branded: moral economy, slave management and the law', JSocH, XXI, (1988), 413-440.
• Kay, Marvin & Cary, Lorin, 'They are indeed the constant plague of their tyrants: slave defence of a moral economy in colonial North Carolina, 1748-1772' S&A 6.3 (1985) 37-56
• Bauer, Raymond & Alice, ''Day to day resistance to slavery' JNH (1942) 

Further reading

• Lockley, Tim, Maroon Communities in South Carolina
• Escott, Paul, Slavery remembered (ch 3) 
• Moody, V, Slavery on Louisiana sugar plantations (ch 6) 
• Syndor, C, Slavery in Mississippi (ch 3) 
• Campbell, S, Slave catchers
• Dusinberre, William, Them Dark Days (ch5, 17)
• Chapman, A, Steal away
• Walsh, Lorena, 'Work and resistance in the Americas: the case of the Chesapeake, 1770-1820' in Turner (ed), From Chattel slaves to wage slaves 
• Schweninger, L & Franklin, J, Runaway Slaves