1. “Who can blame slaves for being cunning? . . . It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.” Recent scholarship on slavery has stressed the way that slaves resisted the oppressive institution of slavery. Based on your reading of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is there evidence that slaves were able to resist their oppression through cunning and deception or were slaves psychologically defeated by the brutality and dehumanizing effects of slavery? As you construct your argument, be sure to define what constitutes resistance, submission and rebellion. You may also want to consider under what circumstances resistance was possible and under what circumstances it was not, the limits and possibilities of resistance, and/or whether gender played a role in resistance. Whatever your argument, be sure to support your interpretations and conclusions with concrete evidence from both texts