Plantation life ran on continuous negotiation between masters and slaves

Evidence

Despite the deeply unequal relationship between masters and slaves, life and labor on the plantations was the product of constant negotiation and adjustment. The enslaved resisted in small ways as they worked in the fields, and they developed, and defended, customary rights. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 174

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slavery relationships remained contested and the label slave master masks that contestation; Slave plantations operated through ongoing negotiation, not one-way coercion; Slaves drew a distinction between loyalty to master and to master’s manager — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 136 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Slavery relationships remained contested and the label slave master masks that contestation; Slave plantations operated through ongoing negotiation, not one-way coercion; Slaves drew a distinction between loyalty to master and to master’s manager — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 136 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Slave plantations operated through ongoing negotiation, not one-way coercion #corroborates (0.97)