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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Abraham Lincoln was born and raised on a small farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. ... Abraham Lincoln worked very hard on the farm to help provide for his family. ... I believe because Kennedy was raised by a wealthy family and his father was well known led him to much of his success. Furthermore I feel that Kennedy merrily was riding on his families shirttail. ... On the other hand Kennedy was raised in a political family. ...

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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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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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The Majority of Southerners owned smaller farms and "practiced subsistence farming, raising only enough food to feed their families" (Appleby 104). ... The agriculture was so great that "eighty percent of the labor force worked on the farm" (Pomaska 1). ...

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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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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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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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They went through somewhat parallel struggles including the amount of servitude they provided, their family situations, and political rank in the government. ... Crockett who had family was in fact not as close to them as he would have liked to have been. During a good portion of his childhood, his father was poor so he would send Davy to work on different farms, so he could provide money for their family. ... "The joy of my sisters and my mother, and, indeed, of all the family, was such that it humbled me, and made me sorry that I hadn't submitted to a hundred whippings..."... When C...

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CHILDHOOD YEARS DATE OF BIRTH: FEBRUARY 7, 1817 PLACE OF BIRTH: TUCKAHOE, MD FREDERICK WASHINGTON BAIELY WAS BORN A SLAVE IN 1817 ON HOLMES FARM NEAR TOWN OF EASTON ON MARLYAND"S EASTERN SHORE. ... FAMILY LIFE DOUGLASS WAS MARRIED TO ANNA MURRY A BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN. ...

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It resulted in the division of slave families when slave parents were sold to one master and the children to another. ... Further, it is shown that the legal power of the master amounts to an absolute despotism over body and soul, and that there is no protection for the slave's life or limb, his family relations, his conscience, nay, more, his eternal interests, but the character of the master. ... Shelby boasts of his most trusted slave, called Uncle Tom, who can be sent unescorted on errands in Cincinnati and return to the Shelby farm without any thoughts of escaping. ... George def...

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Likewise, growing up on the plantation farms accorded Douglass very little positive guidance, recalling very few memories of family when he was growing up. ... Jimmy Baca was also separated from his family, but for different reasons. ... Yet there were people like Coach Tracy and his family who went against the grain" (Baca 28-29). ... He reflected on all the wrong doings he did to others, on his family, and on himself. He had forgiven the world for how he and his family were treated. ...

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But slavery was less profitable in the North, there economic activity centered on small farms and industries The southern plantation owners were not willing to follow in the north's footsteps because their income would decrease a considerable amount. ... The victims included the family of Joseph Travis, Turner's owner. ...

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At the age of seven, she was hired out to other plantation owners to do housework and to care for white children on nearby farms, and later becomes a field hand (Compton Interactive Encyclopedia Deluxe). ... "She was excited about reaching freedom, but she was sad that her family members were still chattel. ... Mah people mus' go free-, she said (The Readers companion) a verbal sign that she was going to try anything possible to set her family free. ...

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They do not want their slaves to differentiate themselves from their land or farm animals, as Douglass implies when he says that most slaves know how old they are no more than horses do. Likewise, their masters do not acknowledge family ties among slaves. Family relationships would allow slaves to develop a unique sense of self and would encourage alliances among slaves, a serious threat to the slave owner's hold on power. ...

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In order to keep the slaves working and be happy, the owners would keep slave families together; sometimes shelter them in huts after work to keep the family. ... It's hard to believe in such assists that maybe the slaves weren't treated so bad and only were just working on a farm. ...

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He also barely knew his own family. ... He had other family, who he hardly ever got to see. His knowledge was always trying to be limited, whether it was about family, or about grammar. ... Other times, he would think he"d be doing well, and move up in the world, soon to find out he would be divided up as property with farm animal and possessions. ...

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