Life on the Plantation
Field work, House maid, Driver
What are slave jobs?
Fertile women could give birth every two and a half years. This allows slave owners to gain more slaves without purchasing them.
What is the reason slave women are expensive?
Breaking tools, working slowly, damaging crops, slave marriage, religion, daily meetings reading and writing, running away, and revolts.
How did enslaved people resist slavery?
This is a movement aimed to abolish slavery in the United States
What is abolitionism?
A Slave driver
What is the worst slave job?
This person said, " Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and their (enslaved) concubines; and the mulattoes on sees in every family partly resemble the white children."
Who is Mary Chesnutt?
An event in which slaves would hold hands and jump over a broom together.
What is slave marriage?
Conflict over western territory, the fugitive slave act, and the publishing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are all reasons why...
Why does abolitionism go viral in the north?
A system in which slave owners would get paid for their slaves working on other plantations. In some cases, the slaves keep a small amount of the money. This would let them buy their freedom, if their master allows it.
What is the hiring out system?
Slave mothers did not get to keep their children often. They were taken and sold on other plantations to make money for the master.
What is the separation of slave children from their mothers?
A series of safe houses and secret routes for runaway slaves
What is the underground railroad?
This group was created due to the conflict over western territory, and after the Mexican-American war northerners wanted to keep the new territory open, this meant keeping slavery out. This party tried to prevent the spread of slavery.
What is the Free Soil Party?
Picking cotton, growing rice, cutting sugar cane, cutting tobacco, and harvesting indigo dye.
What are the different types of fieldwork?
The law provided no protection for slave women, they were considered as property. Any child born of a slave woman was a slave. This encouraged...
What is the abuse of slave women?
This person escaped slavery and became one of the must famous conductors of the underground railroad. They risked their freedom by returning to the south 19 times to help over 300 people escape. Quilts were made to hide secret messages.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
As a result of the Compromise of 1850, southern slave owners can now send men north to kidnap escaped slaves and return them to slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This job required you to be put in charge of fellow slaves, forced to inflict punishments on other slaves, separated from their community
What is being a slave driver?
This person escaped from slavery with their four children. They were soon found in Ohio by slave owners. They killed their daughter, to not have them returned to slavery. They the returned to the south
Who is Margaret Garner?
This person, a slave in Virginia, interpreted the eclipse of the sun as a sign from God that they should lead a revolt against slavery. They convicted 75 other slaves to join the revolt. 51 whites were killed. They were captured by the state militia and hanged. 55 slaves were executed.
What is Nat Turner's revolt?
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and was published in 1852. It was written to show the humanity of slaves, and the terrible suffering that they endured in the south. This caused millions of northerners to thin that slavery was wrong. Thus abolitionists ideas became popular in the north.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?