LIFE UNDER SLAVERY SLAVE CABINS

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LIFE UNDER SLAVERYSLAVE CABINS

• Log huts
• Bare floors
• 10-12 people/cabin
• Beds of straw/rags
• One blanket
• Bad weather blew
• through cracks in
• walls. Floors became
• muddy.

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LIFE UNDER SLAVERYFAMILY LIFE

• Marriage not recognized by law
• Families could be separated
• Extended families formed to care
• for children

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LIFE UNDER SLAVERYCULTURE

• By 1808, slave trade illegal, but
• slavery was still legal in the South
• By 1860, almost all enslaved people
• in South were born there
• Passed on African customs like music,
• dance, folk stories

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LIFE UNDER SLAVERYCHRISTIANITY

• Christianity became a religion of both
• hope and resistance
• Spirituals became an African American
• folk song
• Provided a way for African Americans
• to communicate secretly among
• themselves

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LIFE UNDER SLAVERYSLAVE CODES
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LIFE UNDER SLAVERYRESISTANCE
Nat Turner

• Taught himself to read write
• Became popular religious leader
• among his fellow slaves
• In 1831, led a slave revolt and
• killed at least 55 whites
• Was captured and hanged for
• trying to free the slaves

• Resistance by most slaves took the form of
  working slowly or
• pretending to be ill
• Occasionally a fire would be set to a
  plantation building or breaking
• tools

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LIFE UNDER SLAVERYESCAPING SLAVERY

• Harriett Tubman Frederick Douglass
• were slaves who escaped to the North
• Tubman became known as the Moses
• of her people working with the Under-
• ground Railway
• Douglass became a famous speaker

The Underground Railroad was a series of safe
houses owned by free blacks and whites who
opposed slavery and offered assistance to runaway
slaves