The Flight Of Canada And The Different Drummer

Indentured servants and slaves were treated in broadly similar ways. They were both brought to the New World in horrible conditions with many dying along the way. They were both subject to physical

There was also the psych battle between the farm owners and the overseers of the slaves. I can understand why the ones managing the slaves progress where only ever at a single farm for a year or two before parting ways. Not only is it a physically demanding job but it isn’t a very rewarding one. Those who got paid based on production couldn’t stay at one place for a very long time because more than likely they drove the slaves too hard and risked their health. The book talks of owners who purposefully pushed their slaves to exhaustion for a time period of 7 years only to get rid of them and get others to do the same. I know that they would beat them for disobeying but I don’t know why they wouldn’t want to protect their assets as much as possible, although the reward for doing so must have been great.

The life of an African American during this time was just horrible and hard to live. It was just a brutal time for African American people. There were many states in which racism and slavery occurred and they also had no right or laws that protected them. Ships no longer were carrying items to trade. They were carrying African American slaves to sell or taken to an area to work hard labor.

2. Pinedo 2 Slaves being transported to the South were usually ripped from their families and the surroundings they were familiar and comfortable with. These slaves then faced their new life at the plantation, a very different environment from what they were used to. They faced harder work, such as clearing trees and planting crops, than they had back in the ‘old Southern states’. The great demand for slaves on the plantations produced two very distinct types of slaves, rural and urban. Rural slaves, as you might have guessed worked on the plantations usually from dawn till dusk, driven by their overseer. Whereas urban slavery resulted from the lack of white laborers in the mining and lumber industries, because so many whites defected to the cotton industry in hopes of making a larger profit. As a result there was an increased demand for slaves in mills and in ships, so slaves that had learned specialized skills in the plantations, were in high demand in Southern cities. Slave owners hired out their slaves to work wherever their skills were required. This means that the owners left their slaves unsupervised all day, unlike the plantations where they were always under his watchful eye. Many of the slaves who worked in the cities cited them as incredibly different from working on the plantation. In the city a slave was almost a free man compared to the plantations, he got better food, clothes and privileges. Also the acts of cruelty

In the memoir several forms of slavery was depicted. Forced labor was one of the common form of slavery. People in Africa was taken and kidnapped by the European people. Africans were forced to work for free to whomever they were sold to. Also, cruel labor was common throughout the memoir. Although some slave owners were treating their slaves as humans many were not. Some slave owners would make their slaves work gruesome hours without giving them the proper amount of time to recuperate. When slaves would be tired or if they did not produce the quality

On small farms life was very hard for slaves, like you had to work in the fields and do physical work in the hot sun all day. One summary of a scene from the book Chains is when the slaves have to work hard in the fields picking fruits and cotton in the hot burning sun all day.

Woman northern industrial workers were many of times forced out of their homes. From the Voice of Industry, “factory powers in this village of forcing poor girls from their quiet homes to become their tools and, like Southern slaves… they are stowed in a wagon, which may find a similarity only in the manner in which slaves are fastened in the hold of a vessel.” They were forcefully taken out of their homes and stowed in a wagon like animals. People should not be treated like anything other than respectful human beings. This document compares slaves to women industrial worker because of all the similarities they have chiefly because of the way they were treated. This document also shows what people were told about women that worked in factories and what actually happens to these women. This helps to show that the forcefulness used on these women was

The use of slavery was a source of cheap labor that plantation and business owners depended on. Most plantations resided in rural areas with hardly any neighbors, it was mostly land that surrounded the plantations. This allowed for the plantation owners to be cruel and vicious towards their slaves. Some torture usually ended up with major injuries from whipping or sometimes even death. In the Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs narratives, both of the stories took place in an urban or town setting. This allowed for neighbors to see what was happening on the plantations and pushed the plantation owners to act differently towards their slaves in fear of being judged. Living in an urban or town like setting allowed for lighter punishment, the relationship between the master and the slaves would allow for a stronger connection because there would be less cruelty, and would provide for a more accessible escape.

The plantation workers had bad living conditions.They came to work everyday with little to no sleep, as stated in source 1. Also stated in source 1, since many plantation worker came without their families to work they were sometimes not emotionally healthy or stable. Workers also lived in unsanitary and crowded homes, as source one states “They (referring to workers) lived in crowded, unsanitary work camps..”. Information on source two says that workers

During the 1800’s many slaves were treated like animals and had absolutely no freedom. Both men and women were taken from their homeland and forced to do anything their master said. Many slaves were beaten mercilessly and were mentally and physically degraded by their “overseer”. Working as a slave meant working from sunrise to sundown daily. With Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gen in the 1790’s, the demand for slaves was higher than ever. Men were assigned to jobs like plowing the fields, carpentry, and blacksmithing, while women were assigned things like being a servant in the house or hoeing the fields (source). Depending on the type of plantation, many slaves would go without food for many days and then when they would get food it would be a disgusting remedy even pigs would not eat. Their headquarters consisted of a dirt floor too sleep on and little to no furniture. Out of fear of rebellion, the southerners created “Slave Codes”

Living conditions were poor, they had dirt floors and little to no furniture, most of them did not have a bed to sleep on. Sometimes slaves would work an eighteen hour day during harvest time. They worked from sunrise to sunset and were expected to do so almost everyday of the week. Women and men worked the same amount of hours and pregnant women were supposed to work the same until their child was born. After birth the mother still had to go to work the next day and had little or no time with her baby. Elderly women or women to feeble to work were in charge of taking care of the babies of the women who were working.

When brought to america very difficult to escape as they do not know the land, but is better to stay with their master for survival. Both were treated terribly, physically and verbally. When Lola was asked to move to America with the family, she was promised an allowance once the family gets an income, but she never received an allowance just like the colonial slaves. Both these people were not given the medical attention when needed. The mother and colonial masters hated when their slaves were too ill to work. The masters do not view these slaves as real humans, just slaves.

In order to manipulate the minds of the slaves, owners would feed them minimal food, demand them to work in harsh conditions, and implicit harsh punishment. In A Shining Thread of Hope by Darlene Hine, she describes the harsh punishment that slaves would endure. She says, “Slaves who ran away were branded with the initials of their owners or had portions of their bodies amputated.” (45) By doing this, it conditioned the slaves to not act in accordance with the rules and believe that they need their masters for survival. Mary Prince also describes the harsh conditions that she was placed under when she describes working on the island. She states, “Owing to the boils on my feet, I was unable to wheel the barrow fast through the sand […] and made me stumble at every step; and my master not having any pity for sufferings […] by chastising for not being able to move as fast as he wished.” (10) The conditions that slaves were expected to live and work in were described as outrageous. Not only did it disregard the slaves as being human beings, but also it made them develop the mindset that they are not able to live in any other condition. It was common for slaves to accept the treatment that they got because they knew that if they were to be set free, the conditions that they are placed under might be worse due to ignorance on their part.

The law provided slaves with virtually no protection from their masters. On large plantations this power was delegated to overseers. These men were under considerable pressure from the plantation owners to maximize profits. They did this by bullying the slaves into increasing productivity.

The scheme was that their compensation could only be used in the stores owned by their white masters. This caused the workers to be indebted to their owners’ as a way of keeping since slaves were not allowed to terminate their slavery before clearing their debts. These conditions made the characters of both stories fed up, and they started to rebel due to such an injustice.