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Explains how enslaved people most often resisted through small daily acts rather than open rebellion. It also describes escape attempts and the Underground Railroad, including routes north and to Mexico.
slaves naturally resisted their conditions and their enslavement but not maybe how you think contrary to how it is depicted in films and TV most resistance was in the form of small day-to-day stuff like ignoring directions working slower thanexpected the overwhelming majority of resistance took that form running away to escape was not common because there was littlest hope of escaping without help when running away did occur it was usually only a short distance by Design andonly as a show of defiance without little hope of actually getting away they knew they would be captured but wouldn't ignore the opportunity if it arose now those slaves that did have help and did Escape did so throughthe Underground Railroad which is what the map depicts here this is the series a series of supposedly safe houses and hiding spots that runaways were guided to by conductors most famously Harriet Tubman they traveled by night and arrived
at locations hoping it was safe these were this system was organized by Northerners and we don't know how many escaped this way and as the map shows um they uh most of these arrows are going north but someof them went South particularly in Texas and here on the the this lower Southwestern portion of the South they would flee to Mexico which had outlawed slavery in uh 1829.so most slaves didn't engage in this and it was a very dangerous dangerous thing we don't know how many slaves did because it's not like they kept records because that could lead a trail which could lead to captureand worse
Introduces violence as the least common form of resistance. The speaker contrasts it with everyday noncompliance and sets up the discussion of major slave revolts.
the least common form of resistance was violence so the most common wasignoring directions working slower just little stuff like that right things that we even do in our own day to day if you're upset about something maybe you don't put in full effort maybe you don't try as hard maybeyou procrastinate whatever it may be right just little things like that the least common was violence especially slave rebellion uh we'll look at the two most important and there's really not many more than this the first the New
Covers the 1811 German Coast uprising near New Orleans, including its scale, suppression, and aftermath. The chapter explains why it was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history but not the most significant.
Orleans slave revolt of 1811 also sometimes called the German 1811 German Coast uprising that's because the this part of the the Mississippi River this section where this happened is was called the German Coast I don't know why ifI had to guess probably because there were a lot of German settlers there when it was named slams from slaves from several sugar plantations in the area marched towards the City of New Orleans the numbers are unknown butit's anywhere from 60 to 500.the map here says more than 200.all of them poorly armed they burned several presentations they killed two um whites the local militias rallied together stopped the Revolt 95 slaves were killed in the up in the fighting in the fighting to post-trial executions and inthe violent reprisals that occurred so basically white people killing people of color and as retaliation the leaders were executed and their heads were displayed along the Mississippi River as a warning to any other slaves who might think the
same this is the largest slave revolt in U.S history but it was not the most significant because it accomplished very little for the slaves this was just an outburst of violence the largest slave revolt but not the mostsignificant the most significant was Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831.
Describes Nat Turner’s background, the 1831 uprising, and the killings carried out during the revolt. It also covers the violent suppression and Turner’s eventual capture and execution.
Turner was a slave Foreman in other words he was a a designated leader amongst the slaves with sort of a go-between between the the Masters the overseers and the slaves themselves he was also a preacher here in Virginiain August of 1831Turner and several other slaves killed their owner and their family and the owner's family they gathered 70 other slaves and marched through the countryside killing whites and burning Farms they killed somewhere between 50 and 65 whites over twodays before they were stopped by the local militia and white mobsan estimated 160 slaves died during and after the Revolt again those who were part of the Revolt were killed and then violent reprisals afterwards now Turner did escape and went into hiding but he was eventually captured and hanged
Explains how Nat Turner’s Rebellion intensified fear in the South and led to stricter slave codes and harsher reprisals. It also notes the rebellion’s impact on abolitionism and pro-slavery arguments, then transitions to the next topic.
Southerners were very fearful of the actual violence despite the limited success of the Rebellion they also Southerners field feared radicalization radical good good Lord tomaselli they also feared radicalization of abolitionists they also feared the radicalization of abolitionists inthe North there we go the significance the specific significances of Nat Turner's Rebellion there's four of them here one these fears led to a much led to much stricter versions of the slave codes I mentioned previously that therewere limits on slave education those came in and literacy and those were added because of this event because of net Turner's Rebellion so stricter versions of the slave codes were put in place not just in Virginia but acrossthe South as a response or reaction to Nat Turner's Rebellion second it created a standard reactionary response in the South to any rumor of slave revolt even if nothing was planned rumors usually resulted in the murder of slaves
who were supposedly involved now remember that killing slaves was rare so this was a rare exception to that that if they thought they they might be even thinking about rebellion they were executed very few slave revolts and noneof any major size or prominence occurred after Nat Turner's because of this response third significance anti-slavery the anti-slavery movement and abolitionist debates increased in the north which we will discuss in the next video and then fourth and Finalthe argument that slavery was a positive good was already a a major argument but it will really take off because of the revolt um itself was also a reaction to the revolt and to the increased debates in thenorth so as it looks like the system may be starting to come apart the south is starting to push the The Narrative even more that no this is actually a beneficial system it's a benevolent system so videos pretty
quick but it makes sense to bundle all this together those are the two big slave revolts again violence was not common the most common form of resistance was small day-to-day things working slower refusing orders stuff like that wherewe're gonna finish up in our discussions of slavery is to look at the anti-slavery and abolitionist movements the northern response to slavery