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Chapter 5 - Resourceful Slaves and Controlling Masters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2021

Sara Forsdyke
Sara Forsdyke
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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This chapter explores the various responses of enslaved individuals to slavery, ranging from accommodation to full scale rebellion and everything in-between. It also examines the ways that slave-owners attempted to control their slaves, including brutal mistreatment (whipping) and positive incentives to loyal service such as the promise of liberation.

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resistancerebellionaccommodationcontrolwhippingflighttheftstory tellingfableshidden transcriptsweapons of the weakhelot revoltslave refugestemple asylumgrants of freedom
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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece , pp. 200 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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