Slave Living Conditions

The economic, geographic, and social factors was what caused the growth of slavery to be encouraged in the southern colonies. It is believed this way because many slaves were used as if they were tools for others.

The slaves prepared their own food and carried it out into the field in buckets. Slaves were housed in slave cabins. Small, rudely built of logs with clapboard sidings, with clay chinking. The Floors were packed with dirt, and they were leaky and drafty. The combination of wet, dirt, and cold made them diseased infested environments.

Life for slaves was difficult. Every year they normally received two cotton shirts, one jacket, two pairs of trousers, a pair of socks, a pair of shoes, a coat, and a wool hat. To eat, slaves of the time mostly were given eight pounds of pork or fish, and cornmeal salt herring each month. Slaves were housed in wooden shacks with dirt floors, but sometimes they were made of boards nailed up with cracks stuffed with rags. The beds

The daily life of a slave in North Carolina was incredibly difficult. Hard workers, especially those in the field, played from sunrise until sundown. Even small kids and the elderly were not exempt from these long work hours. Slaves were generally granted a day off on Sunday, and on infrequent holidays such as Christmas or the Fourth of July.

Slavery life wasn’t just picking cotton, slavery life was brutal, sorrowful and dismal. Slaves had a barbaric lifestyle in the South, that's how it was where the slaves were located. Life for the slaves consisted of enduring and perseverance.

Most slaves lived in slave cabins with dirt floors. Slaves usually got real cheap clothing that was plain and dirty. Some slaves sewed different patches of cloth on their clothes to show their true colors. Some slaves were allowed to plant their own gardens and raise their own chickens to make their own food.

1. Describe the life of slaves in the American colonies in the 1700s. Discuss the difference between a servant and a slave. How are their lives different and similar? Why do you think they were treated both similarly and differently?

Most slaves’ living conditions were extremely poor, and they had no legal rights. They forced to work hard which led to their high mortality rate. Many slaves passed away in the first decade of living in Virginia. Slaves worked from sun up to sun down with fifteen minutes break for lunch. Owners tried to fed, give clothes and shelter for enslaves to keep them alive. Conversely, many planters tried to save by decreasing costs of salves’ food, clothing, and tools. Slaves went through punishments for minor mistakes all the time. A group of ten to fifteen slaves were sleeping at a cabin with a single room. The room’s floor covered with old rags and straw. There was no medical care for slaves except their traditional African

Slaves were not well cared for. They received the bare minimum for food, clothing, and sleeping arrangements. For example, where Frederick Douglass was a slave: “The men and woman slaves received, as

Life of a slave was not an easy one. Slaves were often chained when they weren’t working so they wouldn’t attempt to escape. Tobacco was a major crop in the upper South so tobacco farms solely relied on slaves to plant and harvest the crops; likewise for cotton plantations in the Deep South. Plantation owners would hire overseers to manage the slaves in the fields. Women, children, or

Topic: How did the institution of chattel slavery shape the development of the American Republic from 1783 to 1860?

The seasoning process, as applied to the treatment of plantation slaves, was designed to ensure not only that the slaves would become totally dependent upon the dictates of their owners but also to destroy the cultural links which the slaves had with their former homelands. In the West African kingdoms which provided one of the major source of slaves at the height of the triangle trade, slavery was part of the indigenous culture; however, the motivation behind African domestic slavery was for the main part political, and intricately bound up with the way in which the capture of those from neighbouring tribes would allocate bargaining power to the captors; it was not necessary to impose a process

The process of Emancipation in the United States dismantled what was known as Chattel slavery, but didn’t initially prohibit the actions taken to work around this. African Americans were still struggling with a system of oppression that sought to keep them in other forms slavery. The south at this time was still known as a “landed aristocracy,” meaning that those who owned land held majority of the wealth. The idea was to redistribute confiscated lands to African Americans to grant them economic independence, since their labor was the foundation of all the generated profits. The Sherman Field Orders would grant this for the African American population, only to later be dismantled by state legislation. Generally, the Black community wanted

Examination of the Slave Experience Most African Americans of the early to mid-nineteenth century experienced slavery on plantations similar to the experiences described by Frederick Douglass; the majority of slaves lived on units owned by planters who had twenty or more slaves. The planters and the white masters of these agrarian communities sought to ensure their personal safety and the profitability of their enterprises by using all the tactics-physical and psychological-at their command to make slaves obedient. Even Christianity was manipulated in a way that masters communicated to their slaves that God had commanded them to obey their masters. Hence, by word and deed whites tried to convince