As the slavery increased in the South; enforced by the system that the laws supported with the driving force empowered by the slave owners, slaves began to rebel repeatedly against the system where many would run away for a short period of time before capture and punished. Anti-slavery grew as both side of colored whether black or white abolitionists created movements and defied the laws to help slaves to escape from their masters. David Walker, born free as a son of a slave published a pamphlet, Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, where he wrote asking those of the world to search in history if any other race were ever treated differently as human beings compared to those of the blacks or Africans from the white Christians of America. This published pamphlet appeal was a form of a resistance act to slavery …show more content…
Bradley, a slave in the Arkansas Territory in his letter to an abolitionists author, editor of an antislavery journal, Lydia Maria Child; informing her of a type of resistance to slavery by black slaves when asked by their masters were in the form of silence and gratitude for their ownership just to gain relief from their hard-working conditions. When asked by their masters about their liberty and freedom, slaves would go on and say that they wouldn’t leave their master for the world while at the same time, freedom and liberty is in their heart and mind. To be in their master’s good graces; slaves played along in what the masters only wanted to hear, knowing if one should say they wanted freedom and show any exhaustion and discontent due to being a slave will sure be treated harsher and be worked harder for