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Passive Resistance
why do humans treat each other so badly?
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music was important to the slaves as a form of passive resistance because they could communicate, give each other signs of escape/runaway and keep their spirits up. music was very meaningful to the slaves in the past. slaves were forced/made to work on plantations because their masters, of course, did not want to work so instead they made their slaves work. There were three types of plantations which were :-
1) Cotton
2) Sugar
3) Tobacco
Passive resistance in the past was when slaves use many ways to annoy their masters to get freedom or leave. Its effective because it doesn't cause a lot of violence and the masters don't really get to know what the slaves are doing. Types of passive

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