Slaves resisted slavery in variety of active and passive ways. A most common form was “Day-to-day resistance.” Where slaves would break tools, pretend to be ill, displaying slow economic activity, and carry out movements of arson and sabotage. These were all shapes of resistance and expression of slaves cutting off from their masters. Another resistance was for slaves to run away. Most of the slaves would run a short distance away, where they were not actually trying to escape. They were trying to push back their labor as a way to negotiate on bargaining on free time, monetary rewards, access to garden plots, and the freedom to have funerals, marriages, and religious movements free from white oversight. As for fugitive slaves who actually aimed
