Freedom, Enslavement and Resistance

Submitting without resistance to ensure better treatment.

Hiding to avoid their masters' advances.

Cooperating with slave owners to gain privileges.

Openly supporting the pro-slavery movement.

It showed their reliance on slave owners for medical treatment.

It allowed them to control their reproductive rights and resist the forced reproduction of enslaved children.

It demonstrated their acceptance of their condition.

It was a method encouraged by slave owners to reduce the slave population.

Detailed accounts of financial transactions.

Domestic life, motherhood, and maintaining dignity amidst sexual exploitation.

Strategies for engaging in armed rebellion.

Political strategies for overthrowing the government.

Detailed descriptions of domestic chores.

Autonomy, reclaiming manhood, and physical resistance.

Acceptance of their enslaved condition.

Emphasis on the benefits of slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

Harriet Jacobs

George Washington

Robert E. Lee

By detailing the economic benefits of slavery.

By humanizing the experiences of enslaved women and galvanizing opposition to slavery.

By arguing for the gradual emancipation of slaves.

By advocating for the colonization of freed slaves in Africa.

Being given comfortable living conditions.

Being stripped naked, hung by the wrists, and having flesh cut open with a cow-skin.

Being taught to read and write.

Being allowed to freely practice their religion.

By detailing the economic advantages of slavery for the British Empire.

By offering a firsthand account of the brutal realities of slavery in the West Indies.

By arguing that enslaved people were content with their condition.

By suggesting that slavery was a necessary evil for maintaining social order.

The celebration of harmonious relationships between slave owners and enslaved women.

The unflinching portrayal of sexual harassment and abuse faced by enslaved women.

The argument that enslaved women were not vulnerable to sexual exploitation.

The suggestion that sexual exploitation was a rare occurrence in slavery.

Openly confronting her master and inciting rebellion.

Seeking legal protection from local authorities.

Hiding in a tiny attic for seven years to avoid her master's advances.

Forming alliances with other slave owners for protection.