Field Slave Worked from sunrise to sunset, during the harvest, they worked 18 hour days Pregnant women worked until the baby was born Picked a minimum of 200 pounds of cotton By the age of 12 the child's work became adult’s work Ashley B

House Slave They cleaned, cooked, served meals, took care of children Lived in the attic, closet or corners of a big house Better opportunity to learn to read a write Cook got up early in the morning a cooked breakfast and there day ended with cleaning up supper and gathering firewood They also waited tables, washed, ironed, took up and down carpets, hauled large steaming pots to preserve fruit Ashley B

COMING TO AMERICA After being captured, the American’s (or white people), the soon to-be slaves are walked back to the ships, no matter how far, to be taken to an alien nation. They were shackled and chained to each other to ensure that Then they were taken to America on a boat with all of the other slaves. When they arrived they were stripped and auctioned away. During the auction, they were judged by their age, strength, height and in their overall health. They were sold to plantation owners, who treated his dogs better than his slaves. Their owners had the right to work their slaves, sell them, and even kill them. Because no one put a stop to slavery, this process kept repeating itself and the slave population continued to rise. Mateo

COMING TO AMERICA Slaves had no rights After the three fifths compromise, slaves became three fifths of a free person Slave owners could kill their slaves Mateo

RESISTANCE AGAINST SLAVERY To resist slavery most slaves, pretended to be ill, refused to work, do jobs poorly, destroy farm equipment, and set fires to buildings these were all actions to revolt the whites Most slave runners were mean to their slaves, very few were nice to their slaves. if caught running away slaves were brutally beaten, sometimes resulting death. some slave chose not to run either from no hope or they like their masters Jacob

CONT. To help resist slavery, later an escaped slave Harriet Tubman formed route called the underground railroad to help slaves escape to the north from slavery The underground rail road helped get slaves to the north until the end of the Civil War After slavery whites didn’t give blacks equal rights to anything which started the million man march. Jacob

Slaves Struggle for Freedom In 1841 The US Supreme Court freed many Africans. Many slaves risked their own lives to escape to find relatives or to escape from labor. In 1844 many states started to free slaves. Many cities hosted slavery conventions to show what was happening to the slaves Ashley Justice

Slaves Struggle for Freedom Slaves used the underground railroad as an escape. The underground railroad was where free black and white people helped the slaves get one step closer to freedom. The people would hide the slaves in their homes and send them later to another place closer to where freedom was. Slaves usually ran away from plantations to find their relatives on other plantations or to escape from working. If a slave was caught escaping, they were punished. Ashley Justice

Life as a Slave in North Carolina African Americans were forced to work on plantations and received no pay for their work. Life- incredibly difficult for slaves and hardest on slaves working in fields. Children and elderly were not exempt from working. Only allowed off on Sunday and infrequent holidays such as Christmas and the Fourth of July. Slaves were sold at slave auctions and then broken apart from their families. Molly Mann content/uploads/2010/06/ALeqM5jKuM7MIqXFoDmlGlWjAh LyrBTfXQ.jpg

Life as a Slave in North Carolina Slave owners did not provide enough food and adequate clothing for their slaves. Slaves grew small plots of land and fishing to provide their families enough food. After work mothers worked to provide clothes for their families. Lived in small stick houses- with cracks in the floors and thin coverings on the windows. Slave owners were only concerned about keeping their slaves alive. Molly Mann plantations.jpg