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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
    E-resources
    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