The History of Slavery
How blacks used to be treated
Slave Life.
Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. Slaves in the antebellum South constituted about one-third of the southern population. Most slaves lived on large farms or small plantations; many masters owned less than 50 slaves.
Group of slaves.
Most masters owned less than forty and fifty slaves.
Cotton Field.
The slaves had to stand out in the hot sun all day picking cotton for the white people.
Slaves were beaten if they refused to do their work.
They were whiped and beaten, sometimes even killed if they refused to do their work or even did something wrong.