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While some slaves loved their masters, not being slaves, but loved their masters, some of the slaves in the Southern United States reacted to their being enslaved by resisting.

Seven common means for such a resistance

  • pretend to be ill
  • work inefficiently
  • break tools
  • poison masters
  • run away. Some ran of their own accord. Some were helped by the underground railroad
  • have slave revolts, such as Denmark Vessy, Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner did
  • suicide or self- mutilation. Some would kill themselves, and or their children.

    • Revolts



  • Gabriel (ca. 1775-1800), also known as Gabriel Prosser, was a negro slave born in Henrico County, Virginia who planned a failed slave rebellion in the summer of 1800. He was the slave of Thomas H. Prosser, but little else is known about his earlier life.
  • Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (October 2 1800 – November 11 1831) was a United States slave whose failed slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most remarkable instance of black resistance to enslavement in the antebellum Southern United States and has become a reference of justification for the American Civil War.
  • Charles Deslonde led an unsuccessful slave revolt in parts of the Louisiana Territory on January 8, 1811. The revolt took place in St Charles Parish, Louisiana and St. James Parish, Louisiana. Deslonde and about 500 insurgent slaves marched down the Mississippi River Road toward New Orleans, killing two whites, burning plantations and crops, and capturing weapons and ammunition. The insurgents were halted at Destrehan, Louisiana just west of New Orleans by a Planter militia supported by United States troops.
  • The Stono Rebellion was a revolt in 1739 by Carolinian slaves named after the Stono River and the bridge crossing it where the rebellion first began
  • The New York Slave Insurrection was a slave revolt in the British colony of New York in 1741. Economic tensions were exacerbated by accusations that a series of fires that occurred were due to arson. Immediately after a slave was seen running from the scene, the slaves were accused of the crime. Of course, many people had already believed that the slaves were responsible for the fires, because of the economic tension that existed between them and the slaves. The slaves of New York were accused of being part of a conspiracy that they had planned, which was to burn down the city and kill all the white citizens and make themselves the rulers. There were trials that followed the fires. At the end of the trials, many slaves were dead or exiled. The accusations of the fires were a result of the tension that existed between the economic needs of the colony of New York and the whites' resentment for losing their jobs to the slaves.


    • Revolts Led By Whites

  • Slave revolts wre not only led by slaves, but by whites, such as John Brown.
  • George Boxley was a white storekeeper who, while living in Spotsylvania, Virginia, allegedly tried to coordinate a local slave rebellion on March 6, 1815, based on "heaven-sent" orders to free the slaves. Boxley escaped from Virginia and fled to Ohio and Indiana, where he helped runaway slaves and taught the principles of abolitionism.


    • See also

  • Casualties of Nat Turner's Rebellion
  • Slave Revolt


    • Source

  • The Unfinished Nation, A Concise History of the American People, 4th Edition!










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