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Slavery
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“The Slave Trade” Painted in 1791 by George Morland
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A slave boat captain could buy a slave for around$20.00 and could be sold for up to $125.00 depending on the physical appearance.
Men, Women and Children were all captured and sold into slavery.
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Slave Being Inspected
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A long march lasting several months was not uncommon for slaved headed to the New World.
Captives being Driven by Black Slave Traders
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• The Spanish and Portuguese had enslaved Africans to work in the sugar plantations on the islands off the coast of Africa.
• As the rich lands of the Americas fell into their hands they extended the practice westward by transporting slaves across the Atlantic.
When the French, British and Dutch developed their ownSugar Plantations they followed this example.
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Trip from Africa to The Americas
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Placing into the Hold
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Capture and the Middle Passage
• After capture, Africans were packed tightly into slave ships.
• The death rate of the “passengers” was 50%.
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Plans of a ship for transporting slaves, 1790
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Middle Passage
• The middle passage to the New World usually took anywhere from 50-90 days.
• Slaves were packed like cargo in the tween decks. They often had to lie in each others feces, urine and blood.
• The heat often unbearable and the air unbreathable
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Interior of a Slave Shipreveals how hundreds of slaves could be held.
Tightly packed and confined in an area with just barely enough room to sit up,
slaves were known to die from a lack of breathable air.
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Published in the June 2, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly, The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire"
illustrated how Africans traveled on the upper deck of the ship.
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Throwing Diseased People Overboard
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Slaves life in America
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Life of a Slave
• Most slaves had Sundays off and they went to church.• Most slaves could not read or write, and it was illegal
for them to learn.• Slave Codes-They could not: leave their home without
a pass, carry a weapon, gather in groups, own property, legally marry, defend themselves against a white person, or speak in court.
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Slave AuctionAmerican illustrator Howard Pyle, illustrator of many historical and adventure stories for periodicals, created this depiction of a 1655 slave auction in New Amsterdam (later to be named New York.)
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Dealers Inspecting an African American at a Slave Auction in Virginia
Harper's Weekly; February 16, 1861
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Punishment
• Slaves were often brutally punished for misbehaving.
• Punishments included: whipping, branding, being sold, gagged (silence), and other torturous methods were used.
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Slave Auction in Virginia
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Picking Cotton
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A Sugar Plantation in 1823
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A Slave Family Outside Their Cabin
In the words of a slave: “We lodged in log huts, and on the bare ground. Wooden floors were an unknown luxury. “
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Abraham Jones' Back Yard
“We had neither bedsteads, nor furniture of any description. Our beds were collections of straw and old rags, thrown down in the corners and boxed in with
boards; a single blanket the only covering.”
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Slave Quarters on a South Carolina Plantation, 1860
“Our favorite way of sleeping, however,
was on a plank, our heads raised on an old jacket
and our feet toasting before the smoldering fire.”
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Five Generations at the Smith Plantation
“The wind whistled and the rain and snow blew in through the cracks, and the damp earth soaked in the moisture till the floor was miry as a pig- sty.”
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A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, near Eufala, Alabama
“Such were our houses. In these wretched hovels were we penned at night, and fed by day; here were the children born and the sick- - neglected.”
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She uses the large battered tin can for a stove and does her cooking on it. Aunt Julia Ann is an ex-slave and
was grown when the Civil "Wah broke out."
Julia Ann Jackson, Age 102 and the Corn Crib Where She Lives
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“In a single room were huddled, like cattle, ten or a dozen persons, men, women, and children.”
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Charlie Crump and Granddaughter
“Our dress was of tow-cloth; for the children, nothing but a shirt; for the older ones a pair of pantaloons or a gown in addition, according to the sex.”
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Slave Quarters“Besides these, in the winter a round jacket or overcoat, a wool-hat once in two or three years, for the males, and a pair of coarse shoes once a year.”
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An African American Family, Outside the Slave Quarters
The Hermitage Plantation, Savannah, Georgia
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A Receipt for Six Hundred DollarsFor Children Who Might be Born in the Future
Paid by Judge S. Williams of Eufaula Dec. 20, 1849 for Jane, a woman aged 18 and her son Henry, one year old.
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• Muzzle used to prevent slave from eating or drinking too much.
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• Wilson Chin, a branded slave in chains with various torture devices
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Rev. Thomas Johnson, who spent 28 years as a slave, holding the type of whip and chains that were used on him during his captivity.
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Richard and Drucilla Martin, Ages 92 and 102
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Mollie Williams,
Age 84
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Tempie Herndon Durham, Age 103
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