They also received their yearly supply of clothing, which consisted of two linen shirts, one pair of trousers, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes. The children, who did not work in the fields, did not receive shoes, stockings, jackets, or trousers. ... He left the plantation when he was between seven and eight years old, to go to Baltimore to live with Mr. ... As Douglass stated in his narrative, "Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity- (qtd. ... There were other narratives...

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• Grade Level: High School

He was often half naked without shoes and trousers in the winter. ... As Douglass matures and is sent to live with Mr. ... Frederick now goes to live with Mr. ... This soon changed as he befriended a strong black community where some lived more comfortably than the white slaveholders. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To lead astray their pursuers, the hounds and hunters, some slaves rubbed the soles of their shoes with a red onion or spruce pine. ... Many were killed during this time or were forced into Arkansas, some were allowed to live in a neutral territory an the Everglades. ...

• Word Count: 1178
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The slaves were given "two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes" (www.spartacus.schoolnet.com). ... These slaves have had to live the worst imaginable lives as possible. ...

• Word Count: 901
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The slaves lived in quarters, which was a group of cabins clustered together. ... Some lived in the Big Houses because they were butlers, coachmen, maids, housekeeper or personal servants. ... Most plantations, slaves lived in the quarters. ... Some people had no shoes throughout the winter. ...

• Word Count: 2553
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Almost half of the slaves, however, live, worked and died on plantations where the owners assigned much of their authority to overseers. ... Children were never issued shoes until they were sent to the fields, usually at the age of six or seven. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. Most of these blacks lived in the Chesapeake region, where they made up more than 50 to 60 percent of the overall population. ...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

They argued that slavery is very beneficial for the slaves and the slaves are very happy to live with their masters. ... In 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"(Lester 65). ... Sleeping on the planks, being cold, wet during the rains, and in the smoke; that was the way slaves lived in their huts. ... It is very hard to believe that practically with nowhere to live, nothing to wear or eat; the condition of the slaves was so good, as the person argues. ...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They argued that slavery is very beneficial for the slaves and the slaves are very happy to live with their masters. ... In 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"(Lester 65). ... Sleeping on the planks, being cold, wet during the rains, and in the smoke; that was the way slaves lived in their huts. ... It is very hard to believe that practically with nowhere to live, nothing to wear or eat; the condition of the slaves was so good, as the person argues. ...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School