What ways did slaves resist their enslavement

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FQ II: Drawing the Color Line: The Atlantic Slave Trade Howard Zinn, "Drawing the Color Line" Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative pg. 1340-5

1. According to Zinn, in what ways did slaves resist their enslavement?

2. How did the Virginia ruling class drive a wedge between white indentured servants and enslaved blacks? To what extent was the freedom of some (whites) related to the un-freedom of others? Please explain.

3. According to Equiano (especially pg. 1340-1), how were slaves dehumanized during the Middle Passage? To what extent were slaves also dehumanized? Why might Equiano have adopted a childlike or naïve style in his description of the Middle Passage (despite his learnedness)?

4. Much of Equiano's Interesting Narrative focuses on tensions between the author's identity as both African and Englishman, between his position as a 'privileged' free black in a white world. Equiano takes the legal route to freedom, purchasing his own freedom through manumission. In the second part of the passage, what do you make of his favorable description of his former master and captain? Does this speak to the tensions of being a free black man in a world of white men?

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