Can you imagine a human-being, owned and treated inhumanly? Well back in 1619 African Americans were bought and sold like toys. These “owned” African Americans were slaves. Slaves were used to work for their owners needs and wants. They were most often treated like property. Most owners would do whatever they wanted to their slaves, causing the slaves to rebel and runaway. Filled with fear, endless hours of labor, ill-treatment, cruelty, and unfairness this cycle never really ended for a slave. Slaves were used as property, whose labor would only benefit their master’s profit. Instead, of houses and rest hours a slave’s day consisted of their work, then their own personal chores,and finally sleep. A slave’s life consisted of the unfair treatments from owners. Fear controlled most slaves which kept them from breaking out in riots or running away. Unless a slave had a good owner to give them better …show more content…
If a slave worked on a plantation they would have their own little quarters, or cabins, in which they lived. These quarters mainly consisted of a blanket, for their bed, or sometimes ,if the owners were nice, a tiny wooden bed. Women and children slaves usually worked in the houses of their owners, or the field themselves. If slaves worked on a field, it meant working from sunup to sundown for six days a week. As a result of the slaves working different jobs, there was a sort of class system between slaves. If a slave worked in the owners house they would normally get better food, be treated better, and sometimes gain better living quarters. These slaves are called domestic slaves and are considered to be “higher” up on the class system. Even though a slave could have a good owner, they might have to face bad living conditions if their owner was unsuccessful. Every slave's life depended on whether their master was poor, nice, successful, fair, and the jobs they gave
1.) The life of slaves in the 1700 could be easy, or hard, depending on their “master.” Some slaves worked on farms and performed extremely hard feats of work, but others would do house work for their master that was not as hard but more time consuming. Now these slaves were like servants, but they are considered property, unlike a servant that is a free person. Since slaves were considered property their master could do anything they to them, like branding them just for not doing as told.
The Antebellum South slaves and the Camp 14 prisoners both had to do hard work. The prisoners would have to cut trees and gather wood. Also, they had to work in factories. For example, Shin was gathering would before him and his friend tried to escape but only Shin made it out alive. The slaves had to do field work and housework.
FREDRICK DOUGLASS AND HARRIET JACOBS Slavery and its long brutalizing history. Deep, bloody gashes to an inch-wide or more whip and scarred. Cold with barley enough clothes to cover them in the winter or year round. Half-fed left to starve. Rape, murder, beaten on a daily basis to death.
Slavery was maybe a standout amongst the most horrifying tragedies in the history.. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs were only two of the numerous slaves who write about their experiences as a salve. Each of the slaves had diverse encounters with slavery; however they all had one thing in like manner: they recount the abominable foundation of slavery and how enormously it influenced their lives. Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglas, both of whom were naturally introduced to slavery, portrayed their encounters in energetic, convincing accounts. As this short essay will illustrate, both imparted the vulnerabilities of the slave, the mistreatment gave out to these casualties of an unethical organization, and a feeling of being seen as sub-par
Slaves did not have any say in what transpired. You could earn great amounts off slaves since they did all your work and worked hard, especially men, to serve all times. They had slaves work, which was an easy way for them to make money, because they didn’t have to do anything for themselves. The purpose of slavery was to serve, labor, pleasure and greed.
Slaves also lived in a constant fear during their lives. If they did not obey they would be whipped or beaten badly, leaving scars that left their bodies marked forever. Now think of what Harriet Tubman went through. Her first breath of air was as a slave. Put to work as a child, Harriet
You will be paid for what you do and you will have to pay for what you get.” This gave some of them the start they needed to become “humans” in society and live a new life. For slaves prior to the Emancipation, there was never any hope of such freedoms or even options to improve themselves as individuals or as a community. Many rules and laws during this time did not provide and benefits to slave as English common law did not cover them and gave their owners great control over their labor force.
The Slave once enslaved were told that they were only smart enough to work labor jobs. The women were told that their place was in the home, and the men were the decision makers and authority figures. The beginning of the nineteenth century the English textile industry started to grow at a remarkable pace, individuals were buying up cotton, spinning it and weaving it for cloth sales, and with new technology there were factories that needed specialized labor. This labor was for men to purchase time of others as inexpensively as possible, and for the large quantity of more men to sell their labor abilities, in order to make a living.
The house workers got the best clothes, field workers got okay clothes, and people who were too young or old to work got nothing. People who were injured and could not work got nothing as well. The food was handed out once every week and was usually a loaf of bread or something small, it was never nutritious and there was never enough to feed them. Some enslaved workers died from starvation and disease because of how bad the food was. Facts About Slavery
In some aspects, domestic slaves were considered the aristocracy of slave labor. They were usually privy to the latest news, and in some situations had access to better clothes and food (usually the leftovers from their owners ' meals). Conversely, there was a trade-off to working in city homes – domestic slaves were expected to perform the daily shopping (there were no refrigerators), cook all the meals, hand-wash clothes, run errands around the city, and performed other duties as assigned by their owner. In actuality, a slave owner’s townhome or mansion in the city may have eschewed a sense of grand elegance, however, urban slaves lived in squalor conditions that included cramped outhouses, sheds, and carriage houses that stored horses.
They were used to work for people, all the slave masters had to do was sit back and watch them work in sweat and pain. They have to work to survive, they had no other choice. But we also have to work to survive and to keep ourselves from not struggling and out on the streets. They both had to work long hours everyday to know that they were able to go to sleep and night and wake up safely. They both had to work to make themselves look like they were doing a good deed and just follow what they were
Watson notes this in a letter from an Anglican missionary “Here’s no living without servants, there are none to be hir’d… and none of the black kind to be... [bought for] under £50 or 60...” (2014). While African slaves were a more expensive venture than indentured servants, their “contract” did not expire like the indentured. These slaves were classified as chattel, or property, and did not share in the limited freedom that indentured servants did. Although the African slaves costed more initially, they were typically owned for life, and even their children were born in the station of a slave (Tindal & Shi, 2013). Because these slaves were owned for life, the owners typically did not have to pay “freedom dues” which added to their cost benefits.
Some slaves were branded with their master’s name or a symbol so that everyone would know who they belonged to and that they did something wrong. Working for the Americans was as harsh and dehumanizing as the voyage that was taken to get there. The Atlantic slave trade was when Africans were taken to the Americas by Europeans to be sold and forced to work. First, they were tortured on the way to the slave ships and aboard the ships.
Slavery has been a major phenomenon in this world. Slavery had a wide variety of faces however the concepts were the same. Slaves were considered property, property because of the color of their skin. As property slaves experienced violence, humiliations, and much more. Harriet Tubman quotes, “I think slavery is the next thing to hell, if a person would send another into bondage he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could”.
Beginning in the 15th century, the slave trade was a dehumanizing and absolutely immoral system that was founded on racism and greed. Human beings were traded, shipped, and sold like inanimate objects with the sole intention of gleaning the highest profits for traders. Because of their race, the africans that were captured and traded were looked at as less than human, and the slave trade allowed racism to continue for years after it was first started. The transatlantic slave trade was the introduction of institutionalized racism towards African Americans in the western hemisphere, and through every stage of the process, Africans were mentally and physically abused.