Digital Etiquette

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Ms. Sherina

Life as a Slave

The life as a slave was very difficult. Here are some things that were in a slave’s life.

Clothing:
Every year, slaves usually received two linen shirts, two pairs of trousers , one jacket, one pair of socks, one pair of shoes, an overcoat, and a wool hat.

Food:
Slaves usually received cornmeal salt herrings, and eight pounds of pork or fish each month for food.

Housing:
Slaves houses were usually wooden shacks with dirt floors, but sometimes houses were made of boards nailed up with cracks stuffed with rags. The beds were collected pieces of straw or grass, and old rags, and only one blanket for a covering. A single room could have up to a dozen people-men, women, and children.

Childhood:
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.

Families:
Over 32% of marriages were canceled by masters as a result of slaves being sold away from the family home. A slave husband could be parted from his wife, and children from their mothers.

Punishments:
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.

In South Carolina one slave owner would put nails in a barrel sticking out on the inside of the barrel, then put the slave in and roll him/her down a very long and steep hill. Another punishment slave owners used was to whip their slaves. Other slave owners in Virginia smoked their slaves. This involved whipping them and putting them in a tobacco smokehouse.

Some other punishments were getting beaten with a chair, broom, tongs, shovel, shears, knife handles, the heavy end of a woman’s shoe, and an oak club.

Religion:
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.

For more information visit the following sites:

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00394/life.htm


http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/rise-of-slave-trade-black-history-in-colonial-america.html#lesson

13 Colonies Map

Dutch and French Colonies

After reading the text, copy this chart in your blog book.

1. Complete the chart based on Dutch and French Colonies.
Consider: trading, relations with Indians,religion and location.
2. Find the meaning of these words : diversity, tolerance and missionary. Write the meanings in the blog book.

Jamestown: A Story of Success and Failure

I. The People

            A. Too many gentlemen

                        1. They were not experienced with physical labor

                        2. Many refused to work

                        3. Many only wanted their servants to look for gold

            B) No farmers

            C) Many laborers

                        1. Many wanted to look for gold instead of work

                        2. Some didn’t work hard because of a lack of personal property

II. Relationship with the Natives

            A) Built a fort for protection

            B) Used violence to intimidate Natives

            C) Made some attempts at peace with Natives

            D) Always under a threat of an attack from Natives

III. Captain John Smith

            A) Arrested for mutiny on the voyage to Virginia

            B) Military and leadership skills help colony survive

            C) Captured, almost executed by Natives

            D) Gave gentlemen a choice: work or starve

            E) Left Jamestown in 1608

IV.Food

            A) Settlers had little food

            B) Many settlers died from disease or starvation

            C) Relied on trade with Natives for food

            D) Attacked and stole food from Natives

            E) Starving Time

                        1. Took place from October 1609 to March 1610

2. Natives refuse to trade with Settlers

                        3. 440 of 500 colonists died

V. Tobacco

            A) The Good

1. Natives taught settlers to grow, cure and smoke tobacco

                        2. Traders introduce the tobacco to Europeans

                        3. Europeans buy tobacco from settlers

                        4. Colony becomes profitable

            B) The Bad

                        1. Tobacco farms create a need for cheap labor.      

                                   a) Captured Africans become enslaved.

                                   b) Generations of slavery result in part because of tobacco

                        2. Tobacco-related deaths still plague the modern world

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