John Brown escaped slavery and published a memoir of his life as an enslaved man. Here is part of his description of a typical day for an enslaved person:"He would make his slaves work on one meal a day, until quite night, and after supper, set them to burn brush or spin cotton. We worked from four in the morning till twelve before we broke our fast, and from that time till eleven or twelve at night . . . we labored eighteen hours a day."If life for an enslaved laborer was so backbreaking and cruel, why did enslaved laborers not rise up in rebellion more often?

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