Resistance+to+Slavery

= a history of slave rebellions = layout by Jeremy mattingly pictures found by Joshua Kemp

by Matt Robinson
In general the rebellion against slavery was the act of the African American slaves fighting back against them being forced to work for nothing on plantations all day long. The African American slaves would sometimes run away from the plantations and try to get to the north where they were free. They even on a few occasions resorted to violence and killing to regain there freedom. Some of the violent rebellions got very violent and some of then were violent for a short amount of time to aid the slaves escape. The more violent rebellions happened when there were a lot of very strong slaves that were good at fighting and they were pushed enough to attack the overseers and then carry on to the plantation house murdering there holder, however this rarely happened as the slaves were no fed very much and were to be kept weak and under the watch of an overseer with a gun at all times. Sometimes slaves would attack the overseer and then run away so that they would not be killed on the spot. Sometimes slaves would rebel by not eating or drinking so that they would die or become useless to the plantation owner. If slaves would try and starve themselves they would be force fed so they would not die.

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