1. Welcome.
Use the following slideshow to answer the
rest of the questions in your packet. I am
assuming you are an EXPERT now and
can do this without my guidance. Good
luck!

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6. No RIGHTS.
The easiest way to make sure plantation
owners could keep getting free labor from the
kidnapped people of Africa was to make laws that
made sure slaves had NO RIGHTS. If the slaves
had rights, would landowners be able to treat
them however they wanted?

7. In 1640, three servants working for a farmer named Hugh Gwyn
ran away to Maryland. Two were white; one was black. They were
captured in Maryland and returned to Jamestown, where the court
sentenced all three to thirty lashes -- a severe punishment. The two
white men were sentenced to an additional four years of servitude.
But, in addition to the whipping, the black man, a man named John
Punch, was ordered to "serve his said master or his for the time of
his natural Life." John Punch no longer had hope for freedom. It
wasn't until 1661 that a reference to slavery entered into Virginia
law. The following year, the colony went one step further by stating
that children born would be bonded or free according to the status
of the mother.

8. The FIRST Slave Laws
Virginia, 1639
Act X. All persons except Negroes are to be provided with arms and
ammunitions or be fined at the pleasure of the governor and council.
Maryland, 1664
If whatsoever free-born [English] woman shall intermarry with any
slave. . . (she) shall serve the master of such slave during the life of
her husband; and that all the issue of such free-born women, so
married shall be slaves as their fathers were.

9. The FIRST Slave Laws
Virginia, 1667
Act III. Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children that are slaves by
birth. . . should be made free, it is enacted that baptism does not alter the
condition to the person as to his bondage or freedom.
Virginia, 1682
Act I. It is enacted that all servants. . . which shall be imported into this country
either by sea or by land, whether Negroes, Moors [Muslim North Africans],
mulattoes or Indians who are not Christian at the time of their first purchase by
some Christian... are hereby deemed and taken to be slaves to all intents.

10. Field Slaves
Field Slaves- Field slaves worked in the fields from
sunrise to sunset, and at harvest time they toiled 18
hours a day. Woman worked the same hours as the
men, and pregnant field slaves were expected to
continue until their child was born.

11. Field Slaves

12. House Slaves
House Slaves-
House slaves usually lived more comfortably than
field slaves. They usually had better food and were
sometimes given the family’s used clothing. Even
though it was illegal, some house slaves were
educated by the woman in the family. Sometimes the
house slaves were treated like the master’s child.

13. House Slaves

14. Childhood
When a slave was only 12 months old his/her
mother could be sold far away. When a slave was
four, they sometimes worked as a babysitter.
When a slave was around the age of five, they
would run errands and carry water to the field
slaves. Around the age of eight, children would be
expected to work on the plantation.

15. Family
Over 32% of marriages were canceled by masters
as a result of slaves being sold away from the
family home. A slave husband could be parted
from his wife, and children from their mothers.
“Again I was to be torn from a comfortable
home, and all my plans for the welfare of my
children were to be frustrated by that demon
Slavery!”

16. Education
Education: "In most of us colored folks was the great desire to [be]
able to read and write. We took advantage of every opportunity to
educate ourselves. The greater part of the plantation owners were very
harsh if we were caught trying to learn or write. It was the law that if a
white man was caught trying to educate a negro slave, he was liable to
prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. We were
never allowed to go to town and it was not until after I ran away that I
knew that they sold anything but slaves, tobacco, and wiskey. Our
ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we
could run away, but what then? An offender guilty of this crime was
subjected to very harsh punishment." John W. Fields, Age 89

17. Clothing
Clothing: Every year, slaves usually
received two linen shirts, two pairs of
trousers, one jacket, one pair of socks,
one pair of shoes, an overcoat, and a
wool hat.

20. Food
Slaves usually received cornmeal salt herrings, and eight pounds of pork or fish
each month for food.

21. Housing
Slaves houses were usually wooden shacks with dirt
floors, but sometimes houses were made of boards
nailed up with cracks stuffed with rags. The beds
were collected pieces of straw or grass, and old rags,
and only one blanket for a covering. A single room
could have up to a dozen people-men, women, and
children.

25. Venn Diagram
Complete this Venn Diagram
independently or with a partner.
Venn Diagram
Think about: Length of contract,
where they came #om, how they
got here, their race, family life, etc.
When you are done raise your hand
so that I may assign you your next
task.