The most typical examples of these sorts of defiance have
to do with depriving a master of the work of his slaves. Slaves had very few ways that
they could openly rebel, and so they used what they could control; their
work.
The whole point of having slaves was to get work out
of them. Slaves could defy and (to some extent) thwart their masters by denying them
the benefit of the slaves' labor. To do this, slaves would rebel by doing such things
as:
- "accidentally" breaking tools or harming
farm animals - pretending to be sick when they really were
not - working as slowly as
possible
In these ways, the slaves were defying
the masters and throwing at least a little bit of a wrench into the workings of the
plantations.
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