Objective: To examine slave family life and methods of resistance.

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Objective To examine slave family life and
methods of resistance.
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Life Without Freedom
Image taken from Harpers Weekly, July 4, 1863
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Life Without Freedom
Slaves often worked up to 16 hours per day and
were whipped often.
Smithsonian Photography Initiative
Images taken from Harpers Weekly, July 4,
1863
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Life Without Freedom
Images taken from Harpers Weekly, July 4,
1863
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Strong family relationships were formed through
extended families.
Owners could separate families by selling
husbands, wives, and their children to different
buyers.
Five generations of a family born into slavery on
aSouth Carolina plantation.
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Resisting Slavery
Many slaves tried to escape to the North. Few
were successful.
In 1831, an African-American preacher named Nat
Turner led a revolt in Virginia, killing 57
whites.
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Turner was caught and hanged. His revolt,
however, increased Southerners fears of slave
revolts.
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American Colonization Society (1817) wanted to
end slavery by setting up a colony in West Africa
for freed slaves.
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In 1822, the nation of Liberia was formed and
several thousand African-Americans settled there.
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Most African-Americans wanted to stay in the
U.S., which was their homeland.
Trustee R.M. McGill 1846
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Liberian flag
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