A+Day+on+a+Slave+Plantation

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How would you feel If you had to work from the time you could see sunlight to the time you couldn't see at all? Well that's what it was like when you were a slave on the plantation working your butt off.

Here is what you could go through as a slave.

Two linen shirts two pairs of trousers one jacket one pair of socks one pair of shoes an overcoat and a wool hat
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Slaves usually received cornmeal salt herrings, and eight pounds of pork or fish each month for food. Sometimes when slaves were desperate for food, they would steal animals for food. If they were caught the punishment was very brutal. Many slaves starved because of lack of food.
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Slaves houses were usually wooden shacks with dirt floors, but sometimes houses were made of boards nailed up with cracks stuffed with rags. Wooden floors were considered an unknown luxury. The beds were only collections of straw and old rags. The beds were thrown down into corners and boxed in with boards. A single blanket was the only cover they had.
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When a slave was only 12 months old his/her mother could be sold far away. When a slave was four, they sometimes worked as a babysitter. When a slave was around the age of five, they would run errands and carry water to the field slaves. Around the age of eight, children would be expected to work on the plantation.
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If your owner caught you trying to escape or you weren't working efficiently they could beat you.

Slaves could be killed for murder, burglary, arson, and assault upon a white person. Plantation owners believed that this severe discipline would make the slaves too scared to rebel.
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__** WORKING YOUR TAIL OFF! **__


 * Slaves normally had to work in the field, in the house, taking care of the kids, or anything else their master wanted them to do. Doesn't seem like a long work day? Wrong slaves had to work from the time they could see sunlight to the time they couldn't see at all. Which is like a 12 hour work day. Then when you get home you have the cruddiest house, very small amounts of food and only a couple of beds. Sometimes a dozen or more slaves and their families slept in one shack.**


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 * Slaves were given the hard jobs like picking cotton, taking care of owner kids, and keeping up the house, and cooking all the meals. Also the slaves that worked in the house had to work just as hard as the slaves in the field. Because they had the same hours as the field slaves they just had to take care of the owners family and also cook all the meals. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.**



On of the main reasons masters didn’t want their slaves to become Christians involved the Bible. This was one reason why most plantation owners did what they could to stop their slaves from learning to read. In the South, black people were not usually allowed to attend church services. Black people in the North were more likely to attend church services. Drums, which were used in traditional religious ceremonies, where banned because overseers worried that they would be used to send messages.
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Portuguese colonists in Brazil needed slaves for their sugar plantations, and gold, and silver mines. By the 19th century, Brazil had 2 million slaves-half of the countries population. The Catholic Church improved some aspects of slave’s lives. The church encouraged proper church marriages among slaves.
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The ancient Egyptians enslaved Hebrews, Babylonians, and other war captives. Many years after Joseph, and Moses led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt and into freedom. Later slaves rose to rule Egypt. 67 years later they had to become slaves again.
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The moral inconsistency of slavery existing within a nation founded upon the sanctity of individual freedom was well recognized in the early days of America's history. All 13 colonies legalized slavery at the beginning of America's War of Independence in 1775. By the time the nation's Constitution was ratified 13 years later; five states had abolished the practice

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