Some had tight, close knit families, while others concentrated more on their slaves or their hired help for family type needs. ... Their farm households usually contained many people living together in one house. ... Contrary to the South, the northern farms were smaller, therefore only requiring a "labor force of the domestic economy [which] most commonly included one's own children and those of neighbors, although the family could also traditionally contain one or another kind of servant-3 The domestic families of the North were more focused on family life and the well-being of the f...

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Robert Newsom, like many other settlers of the west, came to Missouri between 1819 and 1822 in search of wealth and a better life for him and his family. "Robert had made his westward journey with his wife, whose name we do not know, and son Harry and daughter Virginia both of whom were born in Virginia." (2) The Newsom's settled in Callaway County by eighteen twenty two where Robert built his farm at. During the time that Robert Newsom and family settled there, Callaway County was gaining more and more farmers to its rich and fertile land. ... The eighteen fifty census showed that ty...

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Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The farm was part of an estate owned by Aaron Anthony, who also managed the plantations of Edward Lloyd V, one of the wealthiest men in Maryland. ... Frederick bounced around being a farm hand in many places and he was very upset with it. ... At times he was treated like a part of a family but then he was again cast out as a slave. He got a taste of family life but at the end of the day he was always reminded that he was a slave with all the work he had done and how ...

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Their family structure was also different. While the majority of the Puritans who settled in New England had well developed families with many children, Chesapeake Bay settlers were mostly single men and adventurers who soon faced starving because they did not plant crops to survive. ... The long, cold winters and rocky soil that characterize the New England region discouraged settlers from creating crop plantations and shifted the focus of the economy towards small family farms, seafaring and fishing. ... C) The development of small family farms as opposed to the large plantations in the Ches...

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They also had farming they would have cattle, swine and sheep farms. ... Massachusetts mostly consisted of families with small farms used for personal use, and that was passed down through generations. ... They had indentured servants who would sign a contract with a family to work for them for a certain amount of time and they family would pay for their passage to the new world. ...

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During his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. ... The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." ...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet wrote the book to awaken people to the horrors of slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the best selling piece of American literature of all time. The book starts in Kentucky on the farm of Mr. Shelby. Mr. Shelby is a kind man who cares for his slav...

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"The Evils of Slavery" "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical."(1) These are profound words from a man who lived through one of the darkest and most embarrassi...

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The woman slaves usually worked in the homes, cooking and cleaning, whereas the men were sent out into the plantations to farm. Slaves were of all ages and sexes so the young girls would usually help in the house also and young boys would help in the farm by bailing hay and loading wagons with crops. ... They worked fewer hours and had more privileges than did the field hands, but were more subject to the wishes of the owners families. ... If the slave disobeyed, the owner replied on punishment, such as lashings, short rations, and threats to sell members of the slave's family. ...

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There are still families who can trace their bloodlines back to Europe, England mainly. ... So the New Englanders produced farms that did not have much surplus for selling, they started to become fishermen. ... People were able to own farms and tend to them without much needed help. A family would mainly rely on the family's' own hands to tend to the farm, with the added help of extended family during harvest time or such, some people would even hire indentured servants, but not very often. ... Whereas the Southern people relied on the slaves, the middle colonies made due with ju...

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The Indians worked in the gold and silver mines along with working on large-scale farms. ... Nearly half of Virginia's white families owned at least one slave during this time. ... They had small farms that few slaves would work by maintaining the agriculture, and becoming farm hands. ... It was extremely unusual for even rich families to own more than one slave. ...

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His Family was hardworking and loving but the realities of living in poverty often made life hard for Jessie. ... The thought of his family being worried about him made him extremely tense. ... Many thoughts crossed his mind, his family, himself, the people around him, and what mysterious journey lies ahead. ... Before they would attempt to eat it Jessie thought, the chicken must have come from a farm where there are more chickens. ... He told his mother and family about the entire trip until the horrors of the story made his mother take it no longer. ...

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Separation of marriages and families in slave trade, sexual abuse of slave women, and the harsh treatment of the slaves in the fields, were just a few ways that slaves were mistreated. ... Most farmers in the south had no more than the twenty slaves on there plantation, these farms were only about 150-200 acres large. The owners of these plantation were not of great wealth, they lived modest lives and provided for there family, man did not even live in very nice homes at all. There was about 10,000 families that owned anywhere from fifty to a hundred slaves that worked hundreds of acres of lan...

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The country life in Utopia was basically farmhouses providing for agricultural communities, called "families"; they included some forty men and women plus two slaves. Thirty such families are presided over by a magistrate. ... Most people, after spending two years working in the country are transferred to the city for the next two years, however the shifts are only made so that only half the farm family is moved in a given year. Work on the farm was the usual. ... The population of each city was maintained at about six thousand, and in the event of a baby boom, some families were sent to o...

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Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was one of 9 children born to Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green. Her actual name given to her by her parents was Aramita Ross and her nickname was Minty. Harriet Tubman was born a slave. Slavery is when you are forced to work for som...

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African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, inside homes, in the fields, and in manufacturing. ... Slaves married, had children, and worked hard to keep their families together. ... In some cases, young children of both races played together on farms and plantations. ...

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If the southern economy was based on farming and crops the move by many southerners to large farms and plantations was logical, the more crops you grow the more financially successful you are. ... The large farms owned by southerners needed many laborers to tend to their fields. ... Another way southern slave drivers used fear to make slaves work was by separating them from their families. ... One, it took them further away from their family as well as from the free north. ...

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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... (Wood, pg.52) To ensure individual responsibility, the codes outlined apprenticeship and work regulations and the terms of contracts, marriages, and family relations. ... The laws were supposed to strengthen his sense of responsibility to both his family and his neighbors. ... "Racists found ways to circumvent the law and create other devices that made it difficult for the Freedman to vote or own farms of their own, devices such as Literacy tests, poll taxes, "grandfather clause", and eventual in...

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Upon winning his latest battle against barbarians and bringing peace to the Empire, Maximus craves nothing more than to return home and farm with his family. ... Commodus also orders Maximus killed, but he escapes only to find his family has been slaughtered by the orders of Commodus. ... Another example is when Maximus comes home to find his family dead. ...

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Initially, African slave's and indentured servants were of the same status, however as time progressed the status of these two groups changed drastically. The cause of this change is ultimately more complex than those in the seventeenth century could have ever imagined. During the greater part of th...

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Slaves were used for hard labor out in the fields of farms and plantations to keep the southern economy progressing. ... Since slaves were the people that worked out in the fields on plantations and farms, they played a major role in the economy of the nation in the 1600s and 1700s. ... The comforts of raising their own families, going into whatever profession they choose, even eating whatever food they desire to eat. ...

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Initially, African slave's and indentured servants were of the same status, however as time progressed the status of these two groups changed drastically. The cause of this change is ultimately more complex than those in the seventeenth century could have ever imagined. During the greater part of th...

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Frederick Bailey's life started in February 1818, he was born in Tuckahoe near Easton in Maryland.1 His mother was Harriet Baily, and Frederick Douglass describes his father as being white but he did not know him; however, there were rumors that Aaron Anthony was Douglass's father.2 Aaron Anthony was the man who owned the farm Douglass was born on.2 Frederick Douglass only saw his mother a handful of times in his life, mainly because that she hired out to Mr. ... This was a nice change of pace for Douglass because the Auld family treated him better as his only jobs were to run errand...

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Chapter two: In this chapter Douglass describes his master's family and their relationship with Colonel Lloyd. ... There was a Great House farm also known aas te home plantation of Colonel Lloyd slaves sometimes had permission from their masters to run errands there. Slaves song a lot of songs at the plantation mentioning the Great House Farm: Douglass didn't understand the lyrics of the songs while he was enslaved. ...

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On farms where there was no central place for the children, women had to take their children to the fields with them and either work with them on their backs or put them down somewhere. ... Slaveholders usually chose their male slaves to assist in the transportation of crops to market and the transport of supplies and other materials to the farm or plantation. ... Therefore women, more than men, were tied to the immediate environment of the plantation or farm. ...

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