James Walvin on slave resistance

“Slaves were constantly resisting their bondage. They ran away, they fought back, they dragged their feet. There’s been a pattern of seeing slaves’ lives as shaped only by the whims of their masters, but there is much more to it than that. We need to recognise what enslaved people did to shape the world around them and alter their own condition. They created lives for themselves, and those lives were often ones of

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