{"id":405,"date":"2009-06-18T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-06-18T23:51:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:51:21","slug":"runaways-and-rebels-on-wessyngton-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/runaways-and-rebels-on-wessyngton-plantation\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaways and Rebels on Wessyngton Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_260\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-260\" title=\"Wessyngton Runaways and Rebels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/runaway-slaves-from-wessyngton-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Wessyngton Runaways and Rebels\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/runaway-slaves-from-wessyngton-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/runaway-slaves-from-wessyngton-1024x583.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wessyngton Runaways and Rebels<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Enslaved African Americans used various forms of resistance against the institution of slavery.\u00a0 Some used passive forms of resistance such as pretending to be ill, secretly destroying tools,\u00a0and work slow downs.\u00a0 Others\u00a0used more drastic measures such as physical violence toward their enslavers and running away.\u00a0 Several\u00a0men from Wessyngton Plantation escaped\u00a0and made it to free territory.\u00a0 One slave Davy, ran away four times and\u00a0was preparing to cross the Ohio River and go north to Canada when he was recaptured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enslaved African Americans used various forms of resistance against the institution of slavery.\u00a0 Some used passive forms of resistance such as pretending to be ill, secretly destroying tools,\u00a0and work slow downs.\u00a0 Others\u00a0used more drastic measures such as physical violence toward their enslavers and running away.\u00a0 Several\u00a0men from Wessyngton Plantation escaped\u00a0and made it to free territory.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[194,195,193,198,40,197,41,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}