Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin

By John Hope Franklin

This ebook examines how slaves within the usa (before the Civil struggle) escaped their masters to freedom within the northern states.

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At the same time, it also usually meant leaving their families behind for up to a year (the traditional hiring period), adjusting to a difficult, sometimes dangerous work routine, and dealing with employers who were at times harsh and ruthless. As a result, most slaves felt they should take part in decisions about how, when, and to whom they were to be hired. They wanted to know about their new employers, travel distances, work routine, days off, accommodations, clothing, wages, family visitations.

4 They, nevertheless, deserve close study if one is to understand fully the problem of managing slaves in a rural or urban setting. Day to Day Resistance Most of what historians have termed “day to day” resistance involved “crimes” against property. Slaves pulled down fences, sabotaged farm equipment, broke implements, damaged boats, vandalized wagons, ruined clothing, and committed various other destructive acts. They set fires to outbuildings, barns, and stables; mistreated horses, mules, cattle, and other livestock.

During the harvest season on sugar plantations, slaves labored in gangs sixteen hours a day, cutting stalks, grinding, boiling, and manufacturing the final product. Nor were slaveholders in the region as likely as in the rice planting sections of South Carolina and Georgia to implement the task system. Not unlike the Caribbean, some masters believed it was more profitable to buy new slaves, work them incessantly, hoping they would survive five or six years and pay for themselves before they died.

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