According to the distinguished university professor and American historian Ira Berlin, the United States “condoned slavery without the 'peculiar institution,' which had long been central to economic, political, and cultural life of the nation. " Berlin goes on to say that current racial issues remain a “pervasive problem” in American life, as represented in the media, television, films, museums, and monuments that are a historical representation of American slavery. One of the most important works of Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, critically analyzes five chronologically overlapping sets of "generations" The Charter Generation (early 17th century to early 18th century), Plantation Generation (late XVII to the beginning of the XVIII century) XIX century), Generation of Migration (1810-1861) and Generation of Freedom (1861). Since “A single shot is not sufficient to represent slavery”, the use of the “generations” model ” by Ira Berlin will best convey how slaves used various forms of resistance and cooperation to push back, control, and shape the harsh realities of slave life in the American South. (CN-Web1) Slaves' use of resistance and cooperation could be divided into two distinct categories: “Forms of resistance that rejected the institution of slavery (i.e. rebellions, escapes) or forms internal to the institution (i.e. forms of daily life). " (CN-web) The ways in which slaves rejected the internal institution were through cultural aspects such as religion, slowing down work in the fields, simulating diseases, breaking tools, sabotaging production, among others . In collaboration with the gangways, free black slaves and “sympathetic whites” challenged the institution of slavery by providing “safe homes.” In particular, the Underground Railroad, a safety chain h... .in the midst of the American Civil War, tensions escalate between Southern black slaves and supporters of slavery. Another rebellion was underway by a black slave from Southampton County, Virginia, named Nat Turner “the most remarkable episode of black resistance to slavery in the antebellum South.” (hiddenhistoryofslaveresis) Nat Turner Rebellion was inspired by Turner's personal account in which he imagined a black man's hand "reaching beyond the sun" during a solar eclipse on February 12, 1831. (CN-Hidden) Had several similar accounts of this throughout the rest of the story. the year and the rebellion was scheduled for August 21. Ultimately, the rebellion lasted two days and over 50 whites were killed. (guide3)Finally, the Freedom Generation took place after the end of the American Civil War, during which slaves were “tasked with redefining freedom for themselves”..” (9/14)