Slave Resistance

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Please read the following selections and then answer the questions in the space provided.

Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855)

Nat Turner, Confession (1831)

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Look at these two forms of slave resistance. What does your book say were the consequences of Turner's revolt? Why were there so few revolts like this one?

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What were other types of slave resistance besides running away?

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