
Setting Slavery's Limits
Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801-1860
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This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.