Common forms of slave resistance included
a. refusing to attend to white children before slave children.
b. organizing successful slave rebellions.
c. sabotaging expensive equipment.
d. stealing expensive items from the "big house" for sale on the slave-run black market.
e. refusing to work under black "drivers.".
c
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