Slaves & agency

Essay aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In conclusion, although given to slaves in the weirdest and smallest ways they had agency after being dehumanized and treated like animals. They figured out to runaway through songs, they have things and learn how to read even though they weren't suppose to examples of both agency and non agency have been stressed through numerous articles and Frederick Douglas's narrative and explained in this paper.