Slavery-The_Other_Side

Slavery-The Other Side During the times of slavery, every day slaves did things to resist the bondage laid upon them by their masters, owners and drivers. All slaves had different relationships with their masters, owners and drivers basically ranging from bad to worst, with a rare exception. The slave’s resistances ranged from things as miniscule as trying to outwit their masters to huge historical events such as Nat Turner’s rebellion. The slave experienced a strange relationship with his master. Many masters and slavery defenders believed that slaves “accepted” their subservient position in society. They truly believed that slave did not know better, and therefore, were content with their lives. They thought they had the slaves “tricked.” Although, with some rare, rare exceptions, this couldn’t be further from the truth. The idea that a human just accepted the idea of bondage is absurd and hard to believe. The white man did not know the slave as well as he thought he did; and nearly all slaves felt some feelings of rebellion at one point in their life. Throughout the age of slavery slaves consistently took rebellious actions to resist their bondage. They sometimes debated whether to “out-wit” their master by doing unsatisfactory work, or slaves, slave, rebellion, masters, slavery, bondage, work, violent, time, rebellions, rare, one, nat, felt, believed, actions, turner’s, turner, truth, truly, thought, things, sometimes, resistance, resist, position, point, owners, often, nearly, master, know, just, idea, historical, hard