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slaves legal status |
douglass reminded his listenrs that the defined slaves as property, not as humans |
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rural and urban slaves |
most slaves worked on farms and plantations across the south.the wages they earned belonged to thier owners |
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free blacks in the south |
about half of all free african american lived in the south.most worked as laborers,craftspeople,or households servants in towns and cities |
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free blacks in the north |
african american in the north lived freer lives.every where they had trouble finding good job's |
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day-to-day resistance |
for most slaves,resistance took the form of quiet acts of rebellion. field hands pulled down fences,broke tools,and worked so sloppily that they damaged crops. |
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open defiance |
Quiet resistance sometimes flared into open defiance.when pushed too hard,slaves refused to work,rejected orders,or struck back violently. |
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runinng away |
some slaves tried to escape by running away to freedom in the north.the risks were enormouse. slaveholders hired professional slave catch down runaway slaves. |
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rebellion |
at times,resistence erupeted into violent rebellion.slave revolts occurred in cities,on plantations,and even on ships at sea. |
