1. Life as a Slave

2. Slave occupations
_____________________ in plantation house
_____________________
Field Hand
Jobs
tend ______________________
cutting ____________________
picking ____________________
____________________ (white supervisors) when they
wanted a slave to work harder could punish them
usually with a ________________made of
_____________________________
Servant
Stable Hand
Black Smith
tobacco
sugar cane
cotton
Overseers
lashing
rawhide/ cowhide

3. Treatment of slaves
_____________ worked
worked from sunup to sundown
about a __________ minute break for lunch
___________________at night if it was a full moon.
Even young ___________________helped with chores
If they did their task incorrectly they would be
punished by the overseer
_______________________(these varied from plantation
to plantation)
food
clothing
a place to live
Hours 15
Worked
children
Provisions

4. ____________________________
Slave Codes
____________________________
Laws passed to control enslaved people; denied slave
basic _____________________________
could not testify against a white
had no standing in a court of law (court did not have
to recognized them)
could not own _____________________
strike (hit) a white person even in
______________________
could not leave the plantation without permission
could not own ____________________
could not hire themselves out
buy or sell goods
could not _________________ without a white person
present
could not learn to _______________ or
___________________
human rights
property
self-defense
guns
assemble
read
write