A Redempção argued that mass escapes and the “cleansing” of plantations had led enslavers to abandon claims over enslaved people. The editorial treats collective flight as a force that made the institution ungovernable, rather than as a gift from the state. Its rhetoric is the editor’s interpretation, but it points to the central role of enslaved people’s decisions to leave and to the networks that enabled them.
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What force did the January 5, 1888 editorial credit with undermining slaveholders’ control?
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The editorial described mass escapes as making plantation control untenable.
The January 5, 1888 editorial presented mass flight as weakening enslavers’ control.
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It framed escape as a collective force in the crisis of slavery.