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Title: Life During slavery


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Life During slavery
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Study Guide
  • Role of banks
  • Rise of cities
  • Changing role of Norths economy
  • Canals, Railroads
  • New Technology
  • Eli Whitney
  • Southern Economy
  • Role of slavery
  • Turners Rebellion
  • Vesseys Rebellion
  • Supreme Court Cases McCulloch v. Maryland,
    Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden

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Slave Life
  • Fed just enough
  • Not well rested
  • Worked in all weather
  • Summer 14 hour days
  • Winter10 hour days
  • Harvest 18 hour days

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Contd
  • Worked in gangs 20-25
  • Task system each slave had a specific task to
    complete daily
  • Over seer would whip slaves that fell behind
  • 10-15 lashes

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Contd
  • Expected to pick 130-150 lbs of cotton a day
  • House slaves (women)
  • Worked in or near the Big House
  • Maids, cook, seamstress, laundry
  • Males skilled laborers

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Slave Homes
  • 1 room crude log cabin
  • More than 1 family in a cabin
  • Clothing given once or twice a year
  • Shoes
  • Shirt
  • pants

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Diet
  • Insufficient
  • Per week
  • Corn meal
  • 3-4 lbs or pork/bacon
  • Some molasses, sweet potato
  • Able to grow some vegetables, fish or hunt

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Poor Diet led to
  • Theft of food
  • Eating dirt?worms
  • Skin disorders
  • Sore eyes
  • Vitamin deficiencies
  • Mental illness

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Women
  • Suffered more than men
  • Pregnancies
  • 3 week recovery period
  • No lifting
  • Not always followed
  • Slave infant mortality rate was twice as high as
    white infants
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