ACH Mass open non violent resistence to slavery

Create the following some time after the camera becomes available before any Civil War

One day, at a crucial point in Cotton harvisting, on several Missisippi and Alabama Plantations

Slaves burn or destroy whipping posts and carry signs, (written by the few who are literat demanding feedom and back wages

In some places at least tyhere are sympathetic outsiders who are able to send photos of same
 
This sounds more like something that might have happened in 1950, rather than in 1860. For one thing, cameras were few and far between. I'd say this is ASB.
 
This sounds more like something that might have happened in 1950, rather than in 1860. For one thing, cameras were few and far between. I'd say this is ASB.

What is that OP requires magic, aliens or the supernatural? It's not ASB in the least little bit.

Highly unlikely to be successful?

Sure.

Requires magic or alien involvement to happen?

No way.
 

mowque

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A number of problems. Non-violent protest is very difficult.

1. How do the slaves get organized? You are talking about coordinating the actions of thousands of people.

2. What is the end game exactly?

3. How do they combat the overwhelming retaliation of deadly force? The whites will not hold back and they won't have to. Even the most heinous form of violence will be allowed in a slave rebellion.

4. Due tot he poor communications at the time, northern sympathy will be impossible to garner, even if there was any.
 
Create the following some time after the camera becomes available before any Civil War
Unfortunately, the cameras of the day required very-long-term exposures; they couldn't have photographed any live protests.

Besides, if mere reportage was enough, you'd have gotten that iOTL with Uncle Tom's Cabin and such works. (And as it was, when President Lincoln met Stowe, he said "Ah, here's the little lady who started this big war!")
 
It might have some chance of working, since using overt violence to break a determined passive resistance movement would damage the self-deception of slaveholders that they were benevolent protectors of their slaves.

On the other hand, overt violence probably wouldn't be needed to break the movement. Unless the resisters seized food supplies and kept them away from the slaveowners (which would require violence, at least violent resistance when the slaveowners tried to take the food back), the slaveowners could break the strike by taking a "those who don't work, don't eat" stance.

Passive resistance would have the best chance of working if it had modest aims: not freedom, but merely better conditions. For example, if a plantation had a particularly nasty overseer, the slaves might be able to go on strike demanding his replacement. The plantation owner could then step in, replace the overseer, and pat himself on the back for being (in his own eyes) so kind and reasonable.
 
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