History of Slavery
The first place where people owned slaves.
What is Ancient Mesopotamia?
The age slaves started working
What is 3-4?
Slaves lived in these.
What are small shacks?
Their clothes were usually ___________?
What are hand-me-downs?
These were not considered legally binding.
What are slave marriages?
Created by Eli Whitney and jump started slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
Name three different tasks of slaves on plantations.
What is tobacco, hemp, cotton, corn or livestock?
Slaves worked for this many days a week.
What is 6?
Some house slaves received rooms where?
What is the master's home?
Masters did what to slaves.
What is whatever they wanted?
The first enslaved Africans in the new American colonies landed here.
What is Virginia?
Two tasks slaves could be put to not at plantations.
What are carpenters, bricklayers, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, tanners, weavers, tailors, butchers, boatmen, waiters, drivers, housemaids, or silversmiths?
They got this every Saturday.
What are food rations?
Who are plantation workers?
Slave masters sold them apart.
Who are slave families?
Slaves made up _______ of the population of the South.
What is one-third?
One of the slave children's jobs.
What is weeding fields, picking up trash, carrying drinking water, helping in kitchen, feeding chickens and livestock, driving cows to pasture, or gathering wood chips?
What is 22?
House servants did not associate with them.
Who are plantation workers?
Life as a slave was this. (Leah had to have said this word in her presentation ;))
What is scary?
The month and year the first recorded African slaves landed in American Colonies.
What is August 1619?
Older slave's jobs.
What is making clothes?
Worked this long in harvest or planting season.
What is 15-16 hours?
Domestic slaves worked here.
What is a house?
This would be so awful.
What is life as a slave?