This inquiry focuses on why enslaved people resisted slavery, the ways in which enslaved people showed resistance despite risks and the results of resistance.
The questions, tasks, and sources in this inquiry asks students to examine the cultural, economic and political impacts of resistance to slavery.
The first supporting question asks, “What about the daily life of enslaved laborers would have prompted resistance?” The purpose of the question is to build context about the lives of enslaved people. Students will see an example of transportation from Africa to the United States, scenes of the types of ways enslaved people were sold and treated as property and some of the types of work in which enslaved laborers performed.
