HI330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: White Southerners, Haitian Revolution, Ruling Class
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Resistance and rebelled against their slaves status during the colonial era. Indirect methods, ran away, participated in conspiracies and revolts against the institution with varying degrees of violence. More immediate goals to improve their conditions, to free themselves and their loved ones, to escape. 1739 stono rebellion near charleston, south carolina. 20 recently arrives slaves stole guns and amo, killed their guards and tried to reach florida. 1740 captured 150 slaves and systematically hung them in an attempt to quell the insurrectionary spirit. Perception of being under siege from all direction. Fear that the rest of the country is going to try and take away the institutions and destroy their culture. Typically male but debate among historians that more women may have ran away. One of the most overt ways of resisting against the institution. Women left more than historians used to think but men had more opportunities to run away. Wanted to be able to get their slaves back.
