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because they wanted to
Running away, killing live stock, so slow on plantation
running awayburning cropsstealing from the housekilling animals
acting sick; self-mutilation; escaping
Generally with dogs and the slave catchers would actually take any African American off a street to fill a quota of returning slaves to enslavement.
because they wanted to
Running away, killing live stock, so slow on plantation
People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers.
The word 'slave' is a root for words such as enslavement and slaveholder.
Enslavement is always against the will of the slave, otherwise it would not be enslavement. Fear, violent force, blackmail, coercion, physical restraint, brute strength, etc., are a few ways that come to mind.
Other slaves resisted their captors by drowning or starving themselves.
The majority were unable to resist, but those who did went to the northern colonies.
A slave-holding state was a state where the enslavement of Africans was legal
A slave-holding state was a state where the enslavement of Africans was legal
People helped hide fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad and wouldn't turn them over to slave catchers. They also helped many slaves escape to Canada.
One abstract noun related to "slave" could be "enslavement," which refers to the act of making someone a slave or the state of being enslaved.
Perhaps you are referring to Spartacus.