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Discuss Slavery chapter two.

PDF of chapter two in Slavery


Answer one of the following questions:

1. Describe examples of efforts to dehumanize slaves. How did slaves react? Give specific examples of resistance among the slaves.

2. Why do farmers in the Chesapeake Bay area ultimately adopt an agricultural system dependent on slave labor? How did they defend this decision?