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== Tennessee Woman, 1929 [TN Nanny] == | == Tennessee Woman, 1929 [TN Nanny] == | ||
| − | This account of slavery recollected by an ex-Mississippi house-servant exemplifies the violent resistance with which the slave-owning population of the Confederacy would use to intimidate their slaves during the war, especially women. When the nanny entertains ideas of freedom to others, another slave reminds her that "the white folks" would "kill" her if she was caught (275). Whether this was a hyperbolic statement or not, women such as Clarissa Burdett, who received "about three hundred lashes" for being married to a soldier, demonstrate that brutal violence was used (272). Because slave resistance carried such high risks, slaves who did resist their owners showed a lot of courage, no matter how subtly they may have done so. -Seth Mintzer | + | This account of slavery recollected by an ex-Mississippi house-servant '''exemplifies the violent resistance with which the slave-owning population of the Confederacy would use to intimidate their slaves during the war, especially women.''' When the nanny entertains ideas of freedom to others, another slave reminds her that "the white folks" would "kill" her if she was caught (275). Whether this was a hyperbolic statement or not, women such as Clarissa Burdett, who received "about three hundred lashes" for being married to a soldier, demonstrate that brutal violence was used (272). Because slave resistance carried such high risks, slaves who did resist their owners showed a lot of courage, no matter how subtly they may have done so. -Seth Mintzer |
== Mary Anderson, NC == | == Mary Anderson, NC == | ||
