Resistence to Slavery

When Europeans took thousands of Africans from their native land against their will, one can only expect resistance. Through the struggle, enslaved Africans formed slave rhymes, stories, and planned revolts to fight against the tyranny of the slave owners. Enslaved Africans also used forms of rebellion to out smart their masters and sometimes used violence as redemption for their inhumane treatment. (1)It was also that the arising from the former; industrialization and urbanization were phenomena that made the control of slaves more difficult; and, perhaps most important, economic depression, bringing increased hardships, sharpened tempers, and more widespread leasing of slaves, induced rebelliousness. It has been shown that the presence of large numbers of blacks, free or not, evoked expressions of fear and impelled measures of precaution on the part of the masters from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Mostly throughout enslavement resistance was often indirect, which meant either praying in secret for freedom or Union victory, learning to read and write, communicating through code words and songs, telling the slaveholder what he wanted to hear and informing other slaves of one's deception. Some acts that we call "resistance" were necessities in the slaves' perspective, such as stealing food when given poor rations or bringing food to a relative hiding spot in the woods, which would often lead the slaves into running away. When came to the act of running away came the plan of making “maroon colonies” which became a village built by runaway slaves.

Other then running away, often slaves resisted by; poisoning their masters, inflict damage upon tools and themselves to avoid working properly, they would ask their masters to go use the bathroom and then run away, pregnant women and girls would take advantage of their feminine problems to stay away from the fields, slaves would pretended to not understand their master's orders, they would mock...