The paper should be at least 8 pages. We must compare and contrast the forms of resistance found in the following books we have read in the course so far.” Books we have read and discussed so far in the course as far as women’s resistance to slavery include:
“Closer to Freedom” by Stephanie Camp
“Celia, A Slave” by Melton McLaurin
“Harriet Tubman” by Catherine Clinton
“Driven Towards Madness” by Nikki Taylor
“The Bondwoman’s Narrative” by Hannah Crafts
and a handout on “Mrs. Dred Scott” Assignment directions from rubric continued:
“A typology is a system of classification or categorization – a way of distributing things into classes or categories of the same or similar type. In other words, as a way of demonstrating what you have learned about slave women’s resistance in this course, he is asking us to develop an explanatory system of categorizing or classifying the various forms of slave women’s resistance that we have explored in this course. We have looked at one typology of slave resistance in this course – John W. Blassingame’s explanatory model (we thought of it as a continuum) of Sambo, Jack, and Nat. But we determined that this typology incorporated a gender bias toward male resistance. For our paper, we will need to either feminize Blassingame’s typology or create one of our own that adequately addresses the varieties of slave women’s resistance we have looked at and read about. In doing so, explain why certain forms of resistance fit together and others don’t and what this says about the internal motivation and external context of slaves who resist.
