Resistance in the south

In the south many slaves did not like their life that they lived, so in order to deal with this problem many slaves attempted to resist their owners. There is two types of resistance, active, meaning obvious or out in the open, and passive, meaning sneaky and hidden. Many slaves attempted to resist in a passive so its much harder for their owners to find out who did what and punish them. Although some slaves were willing to take the risk of being punished and resisted actively. Some examples of active resistance were running away, leading a revolt, refusing to work, and in rare cases suicide. Some passive ways of resistance were, burning the crops, stealing food from their owners, faking an illness, abusing livestock, breaking/losing farm equipment, and slowing down work process. the most common way of resistance was slowing down their work process. This was most common because that means they have to work less, disobey their owner, and not get caught as easily as they would like if they lead a revolt.