James Henry Hammond Resistance To Slavery

Slavery was an oppressive time in history. Nothing good came from it, only hatred against others for the color of their skin, violence against them because the whites saw themselves as a superior, intellectual, and more dominant race. Some historians believe that life for slaves may have been different than what we’ve been taught by traditional historians, but how could it have been different. They weren’t treated any better. They were whipped, beaten, looked down upon, they have recorded chattels, where animals were treated better.
Therefore, to discuss how slave owner James Henry Hammond mastermind absolute control over his slaves by undermining their society and culture through physical and psychological abuse all in order to break their resistance and to prove his dominance and legitimacy. Hammond sets outs to observe and record his slave’s behavior towards work, he records that his slaves resisted the oppression of slavery through poor work performance. He corded that the hoeing was ignored, he mentioned something or another about cotton picking, some kind of issues with the cotton balls, and he recorded that cultivating was destroyed by both the mule and
Hammond controlled every aspect of their lives from sun up to sun down. With this strict manipulated control Hammonds slaves were rendered helpless and passive. Hammond passed before the emancipation of the slaves but prior to his death, his slaves did not have the opportunities to exercise power. The little resistance that Hammond recorded was his point of view and of no value to support that his slaves had opportunities to exercise power. In addition, Hammond only records that he had a “sense” of growing disloyalty among his slaves, which should not be construed that his slaves had any type of opportunities other than waiting to be