HIS 216 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Convict Lease, Reconstruction Era, Larceny
23 Oct 2017
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Slaves & crime definition problems: moral ambiguity: lack of certainty about whether something is right / wrong. Criminal behavior vs. behavior criminal only among slaves component of resistance threat to white superiority theft - taking what"s wrongfully denied assault & murder - when level of authority/coercion(force) changes. Nat turner - enslaved african american who led a rebellion of slaves & free blacks in southampton county run aways are usually single, young men, only temporary daily low-level resistance: most common less payoff, less risk. 5th column: any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group / nation. Celia - killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defense. The prosecution of whites for slave murder, cruelty. The white people wanted to make it seem like if they were doing things the right way - by law.
