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Although the slave systems required the continual use of force and coercion as well as the harsh punishment of any rebellion slaves were not a helpless labor force terrorized into obedience and docility Slaves resisted and sometimes rebelled and over the centuries there were thousands of slave rebellions of varying sizes Slaves commonly resisted in many ways such as sabotaging their tools and the crops they were tending but much more rarely slaves violently rebelled which were for the most part put down with extreme violence