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Arkansas Historical Quarterly Leads with Graduate Student Article
Doctoral student Kelly Houston Jones's "A Rough, Saucy Set of Hands to Manage': Slave Resistance in Arkansas" is the lead essay in the Spring 2012 issue of Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Making extensive use of legal documents and carefully reading oral histories, Jones "seeks to recover the slave point of view in examining explicit resistance."
$0She concludes that "slaves' resistance in Arkansas seems to have had more to do with making their lives a little easier than with a continuing, self conscious effort to undermine the slave regime."$0
Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2012