they come north to mainland north america which is ultimately what we are interested in in this class. i have to back up just a second before we moved to mainland north america. this is important to think about, how people survived the system. the human beings involved, this is a dehumanizing system. dehumanizing system. one thinks historians have had to work to recover is the humanity of the enslaved. because, these were real lives and it is -- we do not want to let the system that dehumanizes them when. we want to recover those lives. how do people deal with these conditions? tens of thousands of people that so radically outnumbered the people that help them in bondage, you expect to see massive rebellion. it did not happen. you expect to see lots of escape, but that is very difficult on an island. the rebellions are very hard, because even though there are tens of thousands of slaves, they are very closely interspersed with heavily armed overseers, planter class people. bear in mind, they are also community networks and family networks, so while you might be willing to risk your ow