In hot weather they had an hour off in the middle of the day. The men were given physically harder work than the women. Jobs they might have had include farm labourer, bricklayer, shepherds and working on chain gangs building roads. Women often had jobs as servants. Convicts often looked ragged and untidy.
One story that goes in depth about these things is about a slave who worked his way up towards a house-slave. These slaves got to stay in the house, and more often than not, these slaves would be REALLY hated by the other slaves. Anyway, this slave, even though a house slave didn't just betray his fellow slaves to the master. This slave self-taught himself to read so that whenever the master and another helper were talking, he could understand them. You see, whenever the master and someone else were speaking, and they didn't want the house slave to know, they would spell out whatever they're trying to say.
This reading talks about how Solomon was one of the few black man who were born free in New York. At the age of 12, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Solomon was threatened if he would ever tell anyone his true story they will kill him. He was moved around to different states through ships, he tried sending a message through to his family but they were not able to find him. Solomon faced a big contrast with his previous life; he suffered slave diet hunger, lived in a cabin with a dirty floor, had poor clothes as well as restrictions to his freedom and was beaten and physically punished.
People were treated horribly if they were black and were enslaved, it was terrible. Basically I have learned that slavery is not any good and it’s a horrible mistake made in the past, I have also learned how religion changed and how people didn’t believe in the past and got punished for religion. (15 points) |Score | | | 2. Throughout history, literature has been used as a form of protest. Choose two selections from this unit and explain why they can be thought of as protest literature.
The Promised Land was another term used during the anti-slavery movement to help disguise their destination. Ontario, Canada served as the final stop on the Underground Railway. Once they crossed the border and entered Canada the slaves were now free to travel wherever they would like. Many estimates say anywhere from 30,000 to over 100,000 slaves escaped into Canada from the Underground Railway. Although they were now freed from slavery many refugees were disappointed.
The Confessions of Nat Turner In 1831, Nat Turner led the largest American slave revolt, shocking whites across Virginia. While in prison, Thomas Gray visited Turner and told his story in The Confessions of Nat Turner. From a young age, Turner had believed he was destined for greatness. He told Gray the Spirit spoke to him and told him he was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty. On May 12th, 1828, he received a message from the spirit again telling him to “fight against the serpent”.
Their lack in technology advancements help them back from growing their population to a greater number. So much work had to go into harvesting their crops and they were unable to store things for a long period of time. Their daily work of harvesting food was all they had time for, it's how they were able to survive. Jared says' "Highland agriculture was based on crops like these taro roots, which are very different from cereal crops. Taro is much more work.
After the fugitive slave act allowed federal marshalls to arrest escaped slaves anywhere in the USA the Underground Railroad smuggled escapees to Canada, where slavery had long since been abolished. Escapees would be housed briefly in homes, barns, cellars, wherever they could be hidden until moved to the next
Revelation! Slavery was a big part of the United States around the 1830’s. The whites and slave owners were very cruel to the African Americans. The made them go through long hours of tenuous work with little food and sleep. If the African Americans didn’t obey or perform to the expectations of the slave owners they were viciously beaten.
They provided food, shelter and clothes for the runaways. Many of them aimed to go to Canada because in the 19th century it was British territory and they made slavery illegal, American slaves who went to Canada were safe from the slave catchers. Harriet Tubman was known as Moses of the underground who led people from slavery to freedom. She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and also an escaped slave. Harriet Tubman returned to the south nineteen times where she was wanted, she was very tough and was nearly caught many