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