How did the Slave Resistance undermine Slavery?

• Underground Railroad


  Helped slaves escape to safety in the north and Canada
• Harriet Tubman

  • Active in the Underground Railroad
  • Escaped from slavery herself
  • Actions helped to damage slavery by constant running away
• Slave uprisings


  1. Nat Turner led an uprising in Southampton County, Virginia

  2. Although it failed, the threat it posed increased the fears of slave owners
• The actions of the enslaved inspired writers like Benjamin Lay who write treaties about the terrible conditions in which they lived and worked
• Running away was common among the enslaved