1.
Slavery in USA
How was the everyday life as a slave?

2.
Early history
• 1619 – Dutch slaveship
• Indentured servants
• 1661 – Legalized - Virginia
• 1750 – Legalized - English colonies
• 1807 – Abolished

3.
Slave ship |
• Packing
• Sanitary
• Feeding
• Disease and death
• The flux, smallpox and scurvy (lack of C-vitamin)
http://4thebest4e.tripod.com

4.
Slave ship ||
• Men
• Below deck
• Leg irons
• Women and children
• Separate quarters
• On deck – limited freedom
• Violence and sexual abuse
http://museums.bristol.gov.uk

5.
The plantation – Housing
• Living quarters
• Near the plantation
• Huts grouped together
• Cramped living conditions
• Beds of straw or old rags
• Plantation house
• Nearer the owners house
• Better conditons
https://www.emaze.com/@ALRICWCI/Slave-life

6.
The plantation – living conditions
• Food
• Pots and pans for cooking
• Fatty meat and cornbread
• Self-production
• Clothing
• One pair of shoes
• Three items of underwear
http://ms1776.tumblr.com/post/130098533355/
slave-life-at-mount-vernon-women-would-
receive

7.
The plantation – work
• Plantation
• Sugar, cotton or tobacco
• House slaves
• Cooks, maids, nannies, drivers
• Blacksmiths
• Repairing tools
• Vegetable and fruit garden
• Not fit for heavy work
http://nhuntwalker.blogspot.no/2014/02/planta
tion-life-for-slave-black-history.html

8.
The plantation - punishment
Reasons
• Resisting slavery
• Not working hard enough
• Talking too much or native
• Stealing
• Murder
• Attempted escape
Methods
• Lash – whipped
• Shackled
• Hung

9.
The plantation – family
• Partnership
• Coupled – strong kids
• Children – learn to work
• Women – separated and sold
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-
news/20150619-historic-freedmens-bureau-
records-online.ece

10.
The plantation – religion
• Christianity
• Bible
• Church
• Drums – banned
• Negro spirituals
• https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=BIErCRWcLFQ
• John Newton – Amazing Grace
http://gospelconnoisseur.com/wordpress/gospel
-hertiage-month-day-1/

11.
Frederick Douglass
• Born into slavery
• Separated from mother
• Escaped – about 20 years old
• Abolitionist speaker
• Worked for blacks rights
http://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Life-
Frederick-Douglass-Annotated-
ebook/dp/B00K7AZWZ6

12.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
• Born into slavery
• Escaped and freed
• Abolitionist speaker
http://www.azquotes.com/author/7294-
Harriet_Ann_Jacobs

13.
Conclusion – The everyday life as a slave
• Hard work
• Harsh living conditions
• Punishment
• Family
• Religion
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-
life/10562901/Creepy-wedding-trend-Plantation-
Weddings-Lets-get-married-at-a-former-slave-
plantation.html

14.
Sources – pictures
• http://4thebest4e.tripod.com/id15.html
• http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=2679
• https://www.emaze.com/@ALRICWCI/Slave-life
• http://ms1776.tumblr.com/post/130098533355/slave-life-at-mount-vernon-women-
would-receive
• http://nhuntwalker.blogspot.no/2014/02/plantation-life-for-slave-black-
history.html
• http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150619-historic-freedmens-
bureau-records-online.ece
• http://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Life-Frederick-Douglass-Annotated-
ebook/dp/B00K7AZWZ6
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10562901/Creepy-wedding-
trend-Plantation-Weddings-Lets-get-married-at-a-former-slave-plantation.html
• http://gospelconnoisseur.com/wordpress/gospel-hertiage-month-day-1/
• http://www.azquotes.com/author/7294-Harriet_Ann_Jacobs

15.
Sources
• http://www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade/plantation.htm
• http://www.historyonthenet.com/slave_trade/how_slaves_lived.htm
• http://www.historyonthenet.com/slave_trade/punishments.htm
• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/narrative/context.html
• http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar
ticle&id=309&Itemid=221
• http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_69.html
• https://snl.no/negro_spirituals
• http://spartacus-educational.com/USASreligion.htm
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIErCRWcLFQ
• https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
• http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/middle_passage/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Ann_Jacobs