Term Two: Week 10: Runaways and Resistance
Gobbets
- Maroon reports
- Douglass ch 10
- Ball Ch 26
Questions
How did slaves resist slavery? Was running away a viable method of resistance? Were other methods of resistance more successful? What was the reaction of whites towards slave resistance?
Core Reading
E-resources
- Wood, Betty, 'Prisons, workhouses and the control of slave labour in lowcountry Georgia, 1763-1815', S&A, VIII, (1987), 247-271.
- Tusknet, Mark, 'Approaches to the study of the law of slavery' CWH 25 (1979) 329-338
- Morgan, Philip D., 'Colonial South Carolina runaways: their significance for slave culture', S&A, VI, (1985), 57-78.
- Lichtenstein, Alex, 'That disposition to theft, with which they have been branded: moral economy, slave management and the law', JSocH, XXI, (1988), 413-440.
- Kay, Marvin & Cary, Lorin, 'They are indeed the constant plague of their tyrants: slave defence of a moral economy in colonial North Carolina, 1748-1772' S&A 6.3 (1985) 37-56
Further reading
- Lockley, Tim, Maroon Communities in South Carolina
- Escott, Paul, Slavery remembered (ch 3)
- Moody, V, Slavery on Louisiana sugar plantations (ch 6)
- Syndor, C, Slavery in Mississippi (ch 3)
- Campbell, S, Slave catchers
- Dusinberre, William, Them Dark Days (ch5, 17)
- Chapman, A, Steal away
- Walsh, Lorena, 'Work and resistance in the Americas: the case of the Chesapeake, 1770-1820' in Turner (ed), From Chattel slaves to wage slaves
- Schweninger, L & Franklin, J, Runaway Slaves