“Slavery, though imposed and maintained by violence, was a n…
“Slavery, though imposed and maintained by violence, was a negotiated relationship…. First, even as they confronted one another, master and slave had to concede, however grudgingly, a degree of legitimacy to the other…. he web of interconnections between master and slave necessitated a coexistence that fostered cooperation as well as contestation. Second, because the circumstances of such contestation and cooperation continually changed, slavery itself continually changed. . . . Slavery was never made, but instead was continually remade, for power—no matter how great—was never absolute, but always contingent.” Ira Berlin, historian, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, 1998 Which of the following primary sources would most likely support Berlin’s argument in the excerpt?