Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Plantation Life

















  • Slaves worked for long hours endlessly clearing the land, plowing fields, raising livestock, making buildings, and planting crops to transform the landscapes into luxurious plantations.
  • Labor was intense and if you didn't work fast or the master so you resting you would get whipped or punish .
  • Slaves usually received cornmeal salt herrings, and eight pounds of pork or fish each month for food.
  • Slaves lived in quarter
  • Women would most of the time work in the house cleaning , washing ,mending.female slaves and young children usually served as domestics, tending to the master's family as cooks, servants, and housemaids, and were often starved, whipped, and even raped.
  • slaves slept on the floor with just a coarse blanket
  • Man would usually attend the fields, garden and Horses
  • Music and religion is what gave slaves a reason to leave it gave them strength
  • slaves believed in christianity
  • slaves live in bad condition but they had gone through so much that their bodiessnd minds were strong .

http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm

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