Evaluate the methods and effectiveness of slave resistance in British North America up to 1800.

Candidates will make an appraisal of the strengths and limitations of the methods of slave resistance in British North America. They may discuss slave resistance from earliest colonial times up to 1800. Candidates must demonstrate a clear understanding of various types of slave resistance and make an appraisal of the effectiveness of that resistance. The most common forms were working slowly, breaking or losing tools, feigning illness, self-injury, infanticide, running away and slave rebellions. Effectiveness of slave resistance is open to interpretation. Some of the minor forms of resistance may have led to more accommodating treatment from the owner to end the resistance, but it may have led to harsher treatment to crush the will of the slaves. Candidates might suggest that slave resistance led to the growth of the abolitionist movement in the North. While both parts of the question will be addressed, accept some imbalance in their treatment.