Life As A Slave
Kimberly M., Jaquavion L.
What is Slavery?
Slavery is the condition of being owned by others who controlled what they do as in how they lived, worked, sleep. Being a slave gives your/the "master" the power to do anything to you and anything they want you to do. Slavery has existed throughout history for a long time to the time ancient Greeks, Romans, Incas and Aztecs had slaves. Most slaves populated in the Caribbean's, Dutch Guiana. Slaves were held in much larger units because of plantations which held 150 slaves or more.
Working As A Slave
Large plantations required slaves to work in plantation homes. Slaves in the fields from sunset to sunrise they did eighteen hours a day. Women worked the same hours as men and pregnant women were expected to work until there child was born. Their wartime production helped feed both civilians and soldiers, particularly after the Confederate Congress passed legislation allowing for the impressment of wheat, corn and other foodstuffs.
Children And Infants
The slave rate was so high but birth rate was so low. The means more slaves died than what they were born. Slaves couldn't reproduce because of the environment they lived in and if they did have a child the child would die because they either got beaten or the work was so hard on them they couldn't manage. Also, children/infants died faster than adult slaves because they were unnourished. Like adults, children were unwilling participance's in the slave trade.
Civil War
The Civil War began as a struggle to preserve the Union, not a struggle to free the slaves. Many slaves escaped the North in the beginning of the war. President Abraham Lincoln presented the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. It was very dangerous to be a runaway slave. Virginia had the largest population of enslaved African Americans of any state in the Confederacy, and those slaves responded to the American Civil War (1861–1865) . Thousands escaped to the Union army's lines, earning their freedom and forcing the United States to develop a uniform policy regarding emancipation. Others remained on their home plantations and farms but took advantage of the war to gain some measure of autonomy for their families
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is perhaps best known for ushering slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. But not everyone knows that the courageous Tubman, who escaped slavery in 1849, set up a vast espionage ring for the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The presidency gave him the job of Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army in which he had the responsibility for making key decisions and appointing leaders. Halfway through the American Civil War, while fighting to end slavery, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to declare that all slaves in the Confederate States would be free.
Ku Klux Klan
Their purpose for forming this group was mainly to show their disapproval of the Reconstruction. They targeted those who moved to the north because of Resconstruction, those that were white, from the south and joined the Republican Party, and the freed slaves from the south. They used very violent methods to get people’s attention and to get their point across.