Resistance To Slavery Research Paper

When many of us think of slavery, we envision power relations that were completely dominated by one side. While this is true in many ways, slaves found many ways to resist the institution of slavery. Just to think of the word resist comes along a number of thoughts, but my first thoughts is to fight against something or someone. When you see the word fight most would think of a physical altercations. While there are many other ways to fight or resist with someone. So when I try to imagine how I would resist with something or someone in this day in time. It would consist of maybe not speaking with someone which may include not answering or returning their phone calls. To not being friends with them to getting into an argument. Or perhaps even …show more content…
After reading the testimony of Margaret Garner, a slave mother, that killed her child. This was a form of act that she did in order to protect her child from going back into slavery. There was seventeen slaves that had escaped from Boone and Kenton Counties, in Kentucky. Which was about sixteen miles from Ohio. The news had traveled across the city for the arrest of the fugitive slaves. Well or you can say a man hunt was going on to capture the slaves. As the searched various properties looking for them some were found dead. When the Marshall and other agents arrived at one of the houses. They found a child bleeding on the floor with his or her cut off. While another child had about four long gashes on the throat, and the other with a head injury. But when they were questioned about their wounds, they stated the folks threw them down and tried to kill them. Some were captured and took to jail, while the other escaped slaves were able to get away towards the underground railroad. Margaret was one of the seventeen slaves that tried to escape. When Margaret was questioned about the large bump on her infant head, she went on into detail stating she tried to kill her children. She went on to explain that when the officers and slave hunters came to the house, she got a shovel and struck two of her children in the head. Then took a knife to cut the third child throat and