- How many hours did slaves approximately work everyday?
- Name 3 ways slaves got punished?
Name 3 code names?
- What are 2 Common Symptoms that slaves have?
The Life Of A Slave
- Everyday at sunrise slaves woke up and started working until sunset
- Slaves worked up to 18 hours everyday
- Slaves were treated harshly everyday and had a very poor diet
- A slaves master often whipped the slave they owned to control them
- Slaves worked up to 6 days a week and ate food that might not even be good for animals to eat
- Slaves that worked in plantation homes were usually had alot better living conditions than the other slaves who worked in the fields
Slave's Common Symptoms.
Codes
Facts About Slaves
Slave's common symptoms are:
- blindness,
- swelling,
- skin problems,
- lack of calcium and vitamin D.
Black History and the Underground Railroad
Historical Figures
That Contributed To
Black History
Harriet Tubman
- she was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and, during the American Civil War, a Union spy
- she freed over 700 slaves using the underground rail before the American Civil War
- she was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, which was an organization of abolitionists who helped runaway slaves to freedom
- she also donated 25 acres of land to the church for the making of a shelter for poor and homeless African Americans
Martin Luther King Jr.
- He was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
- He helped form the Southern Christian Conference in 1957, the Southern Christian Conference was an organization that worked for civil rights
- Because of Martin Luther King Jr, it is illegal in United States to segregate or discriminate people based on their skin color
- About 338,000 slaves were send to the U.S.
- One million to Jamaica
- approximately 5 million slaves to Brazil
- some slaves choose to go back to Africa
- the slave's owner forced their slaves to make a fool out of themself to so the owner can show their kids things they shouldn't do.
- If black men were seen without a job on the street they were taken and were sold
- France took 60 slaves and left them on an island that was in the pacific ocean.
Black History and the Underground Railway
Done by: Max, Wendy, Kyle, Kiria, Youssef
- Owners of a slave had full control of their slaves meaning they could punish them in any way they want no matter how harsh it is
- Slaves can get punished for refusing to do their job as a slave,not putting full effort into their job,trying to escape,stealing something from the their owner and talking a lot or talking when not commanded or been told to talk
- tools/contraptions slave owners used to punish their slaves are adding chains/shackles to their legs
- if slaves were caught trying to run away from their owner and to freedom were most likely sentenced to death by being hung alive
- the more serious the crime the slave committed the worse the punishment was
- some slave owners made them watch a slave being punished to prevent them from slacking or attempting to run away
How did slavery end?
- abolition of enslavement was finally achieved throughout the British controlled world, including Canada, on August 1, 1834 and following a graduated period by 1838 in other countries (eg, Jamaica)
- Enslaved Africans fought against being taken and held captive in Africa, fought against enslavement while in slave ships and during their confinement before sale and once they were sold
- It was through these acts of resistance that some slave owners had to reconsider the slave system, the independence of Africans and why they would not accept this status
- http://www.historyonthenet.com/slave_trade/punishments.htm
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/underground-railroad/
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/black-canadians/
- http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/resources/facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
- http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp