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It's interesting how the slave holders played psychological games to keep the slaves, "you must therefore make him as comfortable at Home as possible...you must provide for him Your self and be that means creat in him a habit of perfect dependence on you." The slave holders make this relationship so the slaves aren't to think they are there against their will but because they need the owner to function, which i'm pretty sure didn't work because they did have the run aways and small rebellions. Maybe the slave owners were making themselves think they were fooling the slaves of dependency? Lauren Hicks | It's interesting how the slave holders played psychological games to keep the slaves, "you must therefore make him as comfortable at Home as possible...you must provide for him Your self and be that means creat in him a habit of perfect dependence on you." The slave holders make this relationship so the slaves aren't to think they are there against their will but because they need the owner to function, which i'm pretty sure didn't work because they did have the run aways and small rebellions. Maybe the slave owners were making themselves think they were fooling the slaves of dependency? Lauren Hicks | ||
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| + | How often was the master of the plantation also the Driver? And with that, were these positions interchangable? -Dani Jones | ||
== Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | == Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | ||
