History B Schools History Project GCSE
Resistance and agency
What Resistance and agency means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Resistance and agency
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Enslaved people in the South engaged in acts of resistance, such as slowing down work or fleeing to Union lines, weakening the Confederate war effort.
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