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The Daily Lives of Slaves
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The Daily Lives of Slaves
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Forms of Resistance
• Violence• Feigning Illness• Breaking Tools• Injuring Livestock• Poisoning Master’s Food• Burning Barns• Running Away• Religion & Child Naming
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South Carolina• 1730s = North
and South Carolina splits
• 1730s = 2/3 of South Carolina are slaves
• 1740s = Indigo introduced
• Cone-shaped thatched roof huts
• Shotgun shacks
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Slavery in the Chesapeake• Gang labor on
Virginia tobacco plantations
• 3 types of slaves: skilled workers, house workers, and field hands
• Diet of cornmeal, salt pork, fish, and vegetables
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Slavery in the North
• New York & New Jersey = slave population of 15% -30%
• Shipyards, small farms, and domestic slave labor
• Philadelphia, Boston, New York have free black communities
• Slave codes in the north
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Resistance through Clothing
• “Dressing your station”
• Bright greens, blues, reds, purples
• Slaves used scraps of quilt fabric
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Religion
• Islam, Christianity, and a combination of Christianity & West African beliefs
• Baptist, Episcopalian, and Methodists
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Slave Codes• 1632 = Bermuda created first British colonial
slave codes• 1682 = Virginia has first North American slave
codes• 1712 = South Carolina has harshest slave
codes• Slaves labeled as “chattel”• Slaves not allowed to trade, read, own
weapons, meet in groups, leave plantations without a pass, or defend themselves
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The Stono Rebellion• 1739 = South Carolina
rebellion• Largest slave rebellion
in colonial era• Angolan soldiers• Slaves marched south
to Florida• Over 100 slaves
involved
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Emergence of African-American Culture
• Difficult to form families
• African naming practices
• “Jumping the Broom”
• Drum circle, spirituals, call and response
17th century drum from Jamaica