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1. nationalhumanitiescenter.org › tserve › freedomSlave Resistance, Freedom's Story, TeacherServe®, National ...

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   1 day ago · Ask students: When the enslaved slowed their work or broke tools, were they resisting the overall institution of slavery or just the work of slavery? Can these be distinguished? Remind students that slave masters sometimes begrudgingly tolerated these everyday forms of resistance and even responded positively to slave workplace demands.

   • The Varieties of Slave Labor

     The first scholar to give American slavery serious attention...

   • Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs

     Frances Smith Foster's Witnessing Slavery (1979), Robert B....

   • Rooted in Africa, Raised in America

     Rarely do studies of slavery mention the valuable skills and...

   • How to Read a Slave Narrative

     William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English...

   • The Demise of Slavery

     From 1765, American resistance to British policies was...

2. researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu › cHIST 2530/5530 - African Religions in the Americas - Landers ...

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   6 days ago · Primary source documents on key aspects of the history of slavery. The African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. Case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.

   • Author: Paula Covington

   • Publish Year: 2020

3. reviews.history.ac.uk › review › 919Identity in the Shadow of Slavery | Reviews in History

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   Jun 20, 2024 · Thus the distinguished Nigerian historian Toyin Falola’s endorsement in the preface that Identity in the Shadow of Slavery is the ‘best book so far to analyse a neglected theme’, providing a ‘sociology of the reshaping of traumatised lives‘ (p. xiii) still has validity.

4. libraryguides.ccbcmd.edu › slaveryandfreedomSlavery & Freedom (1746-1865) - African American Literature ...

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   Jun 3, 2024 · He brings to life the characters and debates that fermented around Wheatley in her day and illustrates the peculiar history that resulted in Thomas Jefferson's being lauded as a father of the black freedom struggle and Phillis Wheatley's vilification as something of an Uncle Tom.

   • Author: Cassidy Chesnut

   • Publish Year: 2012

5. nationalhumanitiescenter.org › tserve › freedomThe Demise of Slavery - National Humanities Center

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   4 days ago · From 1765, American resistance to British policies was framed as resistance to “enslavement,” and Americans appealed to natural rights philosophy, eloquently summarized by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, to justify their rebellion.

6. www.thomasjeffersoninst.org › jefferson-and-hisJefferson and His Views on Slavery - Thomas Jefferson ...

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   Jun 20, 2024 · He denounced slavery as “an abominable crime,” and struggled for decades to eliminate it. Jefferson has been called America’s first abolitionist because in 1769 he made an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the Virginia legislature to permit slave owners to free their slaves.

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   Who promised freedom to slaves fought with the British?

   • Virginia’s royal governor, Lord Dunmore, promised freedom to slaves who fought with the British, and General Henry Clinton made a similar promise to slaves of “rebels” in South Carolina. Tens of thousands of slaves, from New York to Georgia, fled their owners, including slaves owned by Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

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   Why did slaves 'naturally' resisted their enslavement?

   • As one scholar has put it, “slaves ‘naturally’ resisted their enslavement because slavery was fundamentally unnatural .” 1 Forms varied, but the common denominator in all acts of resistance was an attempt to claim some measure of freedom against an institution that defined people fundamentally as property.

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   Is identity in the shadow of slavery a good book?

   • Thus the distinguished Nigerian historian Toyin Falola’s endorsement in the preface that Identity in the Shadow of Slavery is the ‘best book so far to analyse a neglected theme’, providing a ‘sociology of the reshaping of traumatised lives‘ (p. xiii) still has validity.

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   Were slaves always on the barricades?

   • At the same time, slaves were ultimately human beings and expressed themselves naturally as such, even within the confines of slavery. To suggest that slaves were always on the barricades, consciously resisting at every turn, risks reinforcing the master’s assertions that slaves were less than human.

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   How did slaves react to their masters and overseers?

   • As a group, slaves constantly pushed their masters and overseers to grant them greater freedoms. This was only natural. When masters refused, slaves punctuated everyday forms of resistance with more overt expressions like running away or rebellion.

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   Was slavery an expression of resistance?

   • Certainly there is an argument to be made that any assertion of humanity in an institution that defined one as non-human was an expression of resistance. At the same time, slaves were ultimately human beings and expressed themselves naturally as such, even within the confines of slavery.

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8. wordandway.org › 2019/06/16 › southern-baptistSouthern Baptist Historic Gavel a Reminder of Racist Legacy

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   Jun 10, 2024 · “At the 1863 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Augusta, Georgia, Broadus drafted resolutions pledging Southern Baptist support for the Confederacy,” reads the SBC flagship seminary’s December report on slavery and racism in its history.