Using 12 Years A Slave as your primary source material, consider the dynamic bet

Using 12 Years A Slave as your primary source material, consider the dynamic between slaveowners/southern whites and African-American slaves. How did their actions and interactions demonstrate that southern slave society was more complex than a society in which one group is completely dominant and the other is fully passive and lacks any agency? (The word society is emphasized to stress that this paper is about how the master-slave relationship had an impact on the broader slave society, not just how one master got along with his slaves.)
Helpful info to consider: When considering the system of slavery, one might be inclined to imagine a society in which the dominant group maintains total control over a completely submissive or passive group. Yet, due to the realities of slavery in the antebellum American South, the relationship between masters and slaves was not so straightforward.
Historian Eugene Genovese has used the term “accommodation and resistance” to describe how southern black slaves, living in a society that slaveowners argued was paternalistic in nature, dealt with their status as unfree people.
To answer the paper question, consider why southern slaves often found reasons to accommodate themselves to slavery (not resist constantly). What are some examples of accommodation? Also consider why planters found it beneficial to find working relationships with slaves (not be constantly violent). How could slaves themselves utilize that reality to their advantage? How could slaves’ own actions influence a master’s treatment of his slaves? What sometimes happened when planters treated slaves less harshly? What impact did harsh violence often have? How could someone like Tibeats have an impact on the dynamic of this slave society?
***Be careful not to assume that this idea of complexity means that slavery was somehow “not that bad” or that some slaveowners were “good.” What’s important to recognize is that when slaveowners allowed families to stay together, gave their slaves days off, held holiday banquets, etc., they were largely doing so in order to maintain order and control, so as to keep the system of slavery going strong. On the other side of the coin, various forms of slave resistance and accommodation demonstrate the fact that slaves were not completely passive beings who had no effect on slavery in the American South. Despite their unfree status, slaves’ actions too contributed to shaping southern society.***
**I am not looking for a summary of the book. Your job is to answer the question in bold below using evidence from the book and relevant lecture material/textbook readings.**
Paper Requirements: The paper should be 4-5 pages, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman (or similar) font. Be sure to include evidence from the book to support your points and cite as you did in the primary source assignments, with the author and page number in parentheses (Northup, 99). No need for a bibliography or works cited page for this assignment.