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In the maps that we found the bottom two show where the slaves were captured by their owner and were forced to work until they were labeled as “free”. If you look at the first picture compared to the one right under it you can tell that there is significant decrease in slaves in that area when in the bottom picture the left side of Texas is nearly filled with dots at that time. If you look at the second picture and compare it with the last one you can tell that when the AAs got captured there was a lot of people in Texas but in in bordering starts as well. After they ran away it looks like the slaves in the other states ran into the east side of Texas and stayed there. With such a large number of in the map that has the captured location its surprising that they would stay in that area. At the same time if you look at the location of slave owners there are a lot of red dots outside of Texas so that adds the risk that they will be caught by someone else and will be sent back to work with the chance of worse labor.

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Representing the location at which a slave owner resided or operated

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This link leads to a webpage in which describes Stockholm Syndrome and compares it to this idea of Slavery Syndrome. It explains how identifying with a powerful figure that is in control of ones life can be seen as Stockholm Syndrome, but also can be Slavery Syndrome. It is important to point out the 4th to 5th paragraph that begin with the lack of attention paid to Stockholm Syndrome and powerful figures, and ends with explaining how Slavery Sydrome is more relevant than Stockholm Syndrome. Connections can be made from our article to this source specifically through the Stockholm Sydrome, but going more in depth into the idea of Slavery Syndrome and how mentally people are slaves to higher powers and higher ideas because they do not know any better. Slaves are forced into a powerplay relationship in which their masters control everything they do and in the long run, the slaves are okay with it. Even once they runaway, they may want to be caught and go back because that is all they know.

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In the 1979 robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg - a square in Stockholm, Sweden - several bank employees were held hostage in the bank vault for most of a week during which time they began to increasingly identify with their captors. While their captors were under seige by police, the hostages went on to reject assistance from government agents. And after the captors were themselves captured by police the former hostages defended them. This example of abused victims becoming emotionally attached to their captors has since become widely known as the Stockholm Syndrome. It has been widely reported, studied and theorized to the point where it has nearly become a sociological cliché.

Identification with powerful figures has been a commonplace of life thoughout recorded history. Despite all delusions of modern social progress it is as fundamental to institutional functioning as it has ever been since the dawn of civilization. What is particularly unusual in the situation that unfolded in Stockholm was the rather quick switch from fearful hostages involuntarily cooperating with their captors under duress to fearful hostages voluntarily cooperating with their captors under duress. In a matter of days, a number of hostages went through huge changes - with some of these changes persisting well past the physical crisis of capture and confinement. (Including a later marriage between hostage and captor.) It was the quickness and unity of this conversion of identification that led to the naming of this type of situation. And its occasional, if rare, repetition around the world has kept awareness of the Stockholm Syndrome current.

More interesting - and far more revealing of the nature of modern civilization - than the rare episodic instances of Stockholm Syndrome-style dramas is the near-complete lack of attention paid to the huge importance of identification with powerful figures in the everyday functions of modern institutions, especially all of the institutions of moden enslavement. There may be little overt drama as the vast majority of people in contemporary societies grow in age, but fail to ever mature to the point where they can stand on their own two feet and make their own decisions about their world without feeling obsessively compelled to attach their identities to those of rich and powerful bullies. However, anyone perceptive enough to be concerned has to wonder how this situation can remain, not only unreported, unstudied and untheorized, but even unnamed in the current sensationally media-crazed culture.
In any society in which slavery was a rare or nonexistent institution it would be quite obvious that the Stockhom Syndrome is itself just a more rare and special case of a far more common, though equally perplexing, Slave Syndrome.
In any society in which slavery was a rare or nonexistent institution it would be quite obvious that the Stockhom Syndrome is itself just a more rare and special case of a far more common, though equally perplexing, Slave Syndrome. But in our society of modern slavery - in which this slavery cannot be officially acknowledged or named, recognizing the existence of the Slave Syndrome is also tabu. What is worse, even among those most libertarian of social critics, the anarchists, it can barely be named.

The Stockholm Syndrome is rare (and scandalous) because the situations in which it can occur (tiny prolonged hostage dramas) are also so rare. On the contrary, the Slave Syndrome is everywhere (and entirely unremarkable to its observers and victims) precisely because the situations in which it occurs (prolonged institutional hostage dramas) are ubiquitous and in a society of modern slavery, even those few slaves aware of their condition are not often eager to announce the fact of their enslavement.

What makes the Slave Syndrome even more invisible is the fact that it is far more the institutions of modern slavery than the particular persons who run them, that are now the powerful figures with which people most identify. The nearly unanimous belief in the substantial reality of imaginary, reified entities (like gods, Santa Claus, science, society, the state and laws) means that rather than identifications with actual living persons - although such identifications still remain common - most people now identify more closely with reified abstractions, and the institutions able to operate under the cover provided by mass-belief in these abstractions. Of course, these institutions in reality only consist in the sum of actions pursued by the people participating in the constitution and maintenance of their symbolic "existence." But this fact is lost on people who have learned to prefer the modern enslavement to abstractions to traditional forms of enslavement to persons.Thus the whole set of modern institutions of enslavement (hiding behind these abstractions) have become the primary contemporary incarnation of traditionally rich and powerful bullies. This is the central fact of modern civilization, the paradigm upon which the entire social world rests: a system of enslaving institutions, in which people have been trained from birth to participate and identify, while also being trained to call the various forms of this slavery "freedom."

Especially amongst the most depraved slaves to modern bullies - those who sing their praises the most strongly, continuously and publicly, the people who make up the modern mass media, one cannot possibly count the times that identifications with these bullies are repeated over and over and over. For those who haven't already gotten the message through exposure to parental submission and humiliation, or private and public schooling, the mass media (including social media) insist on telling us ad nauseam that we are beholden to "our government," "our military," "our businesses," "our police," "our laws" and on and on....

In a world of modern slavery in which slavery is invisible because liberty has been largely reduced to following laws and orders issued, not (for the most part at least) by particular persons, but ever increasingly by abstractions (incarnated by institutions), is modern slavery still slavery when there are fewer and fewer people left able and willing to point it out? That remains to be decided. Where do you stand?

We can each refuse idenfication with our enslavement by rebelling against it here and now at every opportunity. By refusing to let ourselves be encompassed in the silent consent implied whenever "we" or "our" includes the abstractions or institutions of modern slavery. It's "their" system, not "ours" or "mine." It's the system of those who continue to believe in it, not of those who genuinely fight it. If you identify with it, you're a part of it. The more you refuse identification with it the more its power is reduced by each and every one of us whenever we act on this refusal.

-Jason McQuinn

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In the 1979 robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg - a square in Stockholm, Sweden - several bank employees were held hostage in the bank vault for most of a week during which time they began to increasingly identify with their captors. While their captors were under seige by police, the hostages went on to reject assistance from government agents.

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The Southern Sentinel had a designated column for runaway enslaved peoples. These peoples were all male with ages ranging 20-40. Physically they were generally around the same size and were not described further than basic race. It is important to note that each ad was also written in Creole, paying homage to the geographical and cultural mix of the location. A cultural mix could also been found in the use of anglo-sized names, only a handful of the captured slaves have "native" names. Examples could be found with the enslaved being referred to as “Daniel” and “William”. Someone had taken the time to rename the enslaved rather than using a crude name. This giving the enslaved a sort of pet like ownership. These runaways had been caught and jailed and needed to be returned to their owners. It is important to note that these runaways wished to return to their masters rather than stay in jail.

It seemed as though the enslaved were compliant with the jailers as they willingly gave them their owners name and location. Before obtaining the enslaved owners would have to prove their ownership. This would be a grey area and likely there were instances where incorrect slaves were obtained. It should be noted that it felt as though the slaves wanted their owners to find them. But one must ask why? Why would one who made the enslaved suffer such brutality and cruelty wish to be returned to that state? This behavior is similar to Stockholm syndrome in which a hostage has feelings of trust or devotion with their captor. More simply put this would be the equivalent to capture bonding. One can compare this relationship to that of an abusive one. After the relationship had ended in many cases the person being abused would say things such as, "I know it sounds crazy, but I miss her" (PhD, 2017, p. 1). There would also be potential feelings of envy if the abuser had taken a new subject to abuse. Cases of Stockholm syndrome had been found in concentration camp prisoners and cult members. Peoples in those situation would have many parallels to enslaved peoples as their captors have extreme control over their entire world. Slave owners controlled every aspect of the enslaved; when they ate, worked, and were punished for misbehaving. This syndrome was viewed as being a coping mechanism as it gives the abused a better chance of survival. However, it came with a downfall due to abused peoples being uncooperative with rescue of any sort. This would seem fitting that the enslaved would wish to return to their owner, their abuser, as they had developed this relationship. One should also ponder the theory that those jails they were put into were worse than that of a plantation. This may have been the superior option to the enslaved as they were caught breaking the law prior to being jailed. Either being the case the enslaved appeared compliant after being caught, posing the question was being enslaved better than being jailed?