Welcome back to one and all!!
The responses to your first assignment were very interesting. What you have written have shown that you fully understand what slavery was and what resistance was all about.
Now onto assignment #2 for this week:
Firstly, watch the video below and see if you can list at least five reasons why slaves resisted.Secondly, read the excerpt below of a slave narrative to explore other reasons why Africans did not accept slavery.
"Our hands are required to be in the cotton field as soon as it is light in the morning, and, with the exception of ten or fifteen minutes, which is given us at noon to swallow our allowance of cold bacon, we are not permitted to be a moment idle until it is too dark to see, and when the moon is full, we often times labor till the middle of the night. We do not dare to stop even at dinner time, nor return to the quarters, however late it be, until the order to halt is given by the driver. I, myself, had a master who used me worse than he had a moral right to do, regarding me merely as an article of property, and not entitled to any basic rights as a man, social, political or economic.We lodged in small barracks, and on the bare ground. Wooden floors were an unknown luxury. In a single room were huddled, like cattle, ten or a dozen persons, men, women, and children. All ideas of refinement and decency were, of course, out of the question. We had neither bedsteads, nor furniture of any description. Our beds were collections of straw and old rags, thrown down in the corners and boxed in with boards; a single blanket the only covering."
