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- It was much more intentional than that. Maybe they didn't know with the first enslaved people brought to the colonies that it would end up such a large system, but I don't think it just "got away from them"
- Stephanie Camp's book "Closer to Freedom" does a great job exploring all the many facets of "everyday resistance" that existed in plantation spaces.
- You're in luck, there's not one but TWO great recent books about this!!
- Richard Bell, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
- Jonathan Daniel Wells, The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
- Not sure about spying exactly, but there's a constant, low level of anxiety that enslaved people are plotting rebellions, and often this leads to some pretty ugly, violent pre-emptive actions. Especially during the era of the Haitian Revolution.