Life+As+a+Slave



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**__LIFE AS A SLAVE __** ======

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Life as a slave was very difficult. Slaves worked from sunrise till sunset, especially the slaves that worked in the fields. Even small children and the elderly were not exempt from these long work hours. Slaves were generally allowed a day off on Sunday, and on infrequent holidays such as Christmas or the Fourth of July. When the slaves had free time they would do their own work. ======

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The diet supplied by slaveholders was generally poor, and slaves often supplemented it by tending small plots of land or fishing. Most slave owners did not provide the right clothing material for the slaves and their families. Some mothers would work extra to provide clothing for their kids. One visitor to colonial North Carolina wrote that slaveholders rarely gave their slaves meat or fish, and that he witnessed many slaves wearing only rags. ======

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The shelters that the slaves had were also very poor. Many slaves lived in stick houses with dirt floors. The shelters had cracks everywhere that let in the co ======

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ld wind, and had thin coverings over the windows. Slave owners did not care for the slave’s survival, comfort health or safety. All they wanted out of them were the fact that they were supposed to work. ======

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Slave owners thought it was a good idea for the slaves to let them marry, so the kids would add to the owner’s wealth. According to law, a child took on the legal status of its mother; a child born ======

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to a slave mother would in turn become a slave, even if the father was free. Slave marriage had no protection, so the slave owners could brake up marriages and separate the families as they wished. ======

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STUDY GUIDE //__ Life as a Slave __//
 * //__ Slavery in North Carolina __ //
 * -Slavery was a foundation of North Carolina’s economy and society.
 * -In 1860, North Carolina had 23,762,969 acres of farmland.
 * // - // In 1860, 28 percent of the white population owned slaves
 * -Only 3 percent of these slave-holding whites would have been considered in the planter class.
 * //__ Born into Slavery __//
 * //1936-1938// contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves
 * -You may become a master yourself, but you remain a slave. And then finally, at old age, where there is no more use for you, no more use at all, not even in the indoctrination of new meat, your withered husk is discarded and turned to dust, the way your free will, independence and humanity was long ago.
 * -Nice boys and girls are set up to become servants, to become slaves,
 * __ [|A JOURNEY FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM]  __
 * - // Their homes often became stations on the Underground Railroad [|,] which helped slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. //
 * -The Emancipator, which appeared in 1820. In 1831, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison began publication of his newspaper, The Liberator. Garrison demanded immediate freedom for slaves.
 * // -The American Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1833, supported Garrison's crusade //
 * //__ Understanding Slavery __//
 * -Slaves were usually considered somehow different than their owners.
 * -They might belong to a different race, religion, nationality, or ethnic background.
 * -27 million people worldwide are enslaved or work as forced laborers.
 * //__ [|SLAVERY'S IMPACT ON AMERICA]  __//
 * -Slavery in the South had an impact on the life of every black person in the country, no matter where that black person was.