Life During slavery

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Life During slavery
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Study Guide

• Role of banks
• Rise of cities
• Changing role of Norths economy
• Canals, Railroads
• New Technology
• Eli Whitney
• Southern Economy
• Role of slavery
• Turners Rebellion
• Vesseys Rebellion
• Supreme Court Cases McCulloch v. Maryland,
  Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden

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Slave Life

• Fed just enough
• Not well rested
• Worked in all weather
• Summer 14 hour days
• Winter10 hour days
• Harvest 18 hour days

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• Worked in gangs 20-25
• Task system each slave had a specific task to
  complete daily
• Over seer would whip slaves that fell behind
• 10-15 lashes

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• Expected to pick 130-150 lbs of cotton a day
• House slaves (women)
• Worked in or near the Big House
• Maids, cook, seamstress, laundry
• Males skilled laborers

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Slave Homes

• 1 room crude log cabin
• More than 1 family in a cabin
• Clothing given once or twice a year
• Shoes
• Shirt
• pants

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Diet

• Insufficient
• Per week
• Corn meal
• 3-4 lbs or pork/bacon
• Some molasses, sweet potato
• Able to grow some vegetables, fish or hunt

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Poor Diet led to

• Theft of food
• Eating dirt?worms
• Skin disorders
• Sore eyes
• Vitamin deficiencies
• Mental illness

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Women

• Suffered more than men
• Pregnancies
• 3 week recovery period
• No lifting
• Not always followed
• Slave infant mortality rate was twice as high as
  white infants