Transcript Slavery
Slavery Theresa Rendes W. Stiern Middle School Ms. Marshall 2009-2010 Standard: hss 8.7.2 Their Ride • 600 to 650 thousand slaves arrived in America against their will. • An African cost $27.00. • Slaves that were ill were sometimes thrown over board. • They were all split up Losses • Many families were split up. • They rarely were able to see their family if their masters let them. • They were forced away from their homes. • Most of theM weren’t aloud to get married. Beatings • When the slaves did something wrong they got beatings to learn their lesson. • Some of them like in this picture didn’t learn their lesson so they got beatings so many times you could see it on their backs. • They were branded, whipped, and chained. Separation • A lot of the families got split up either into groups or all alone. • They separated the babies from the moms when they were a few weeks old so they wouldn’t have any emotions towards the parents. Field Slaves • they were called “ field hands” • They usually worked from 6:00 A.M. to midnight. • They picked the cotton while the children fed the chickens, kept the crows away and, much more. House Slaves • House slaves were usually treated much better than field slaves. • They cooked, cleaned, and did anything their owner asked them to do. • They lived at their owners house. • Any time at night their master wanted something then they would have to do it. Underground Railroads • It was a place for the slaves to stop on the way for freedom. • The south lost 100,oo0 slaves between 1810 and 1850. • Harriet Tubman made 19 trips into the south and escorted 300 slaves to their freedom. End of Slavery • In 1926 at the slavery convention it was a turning point in banning global slavery. • Then in 1966 they adopted the International convenant and political rights. • Everyone was finally free now. Bibliography • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944. html • http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entr y/slavery Published: February 4,2009 Title: New World Encyclopedia • Sharp, Pearl S. The Slave Trade and the Middle Passage. Marshall Cavendish Inc, 2007