Throughout their trip down the river, Jim persistently takes care of Huck. ... The only reason he ran was because he overheard her saying that he was going to be sold down the river. Being sold down the river meant being sold into an even graver situation for a slave. ... In the Deep South, or down the river? ... He had abandoned his wife and children and he was scared. ...
In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... There were four million men, women, and children in slavery. ... But, in the state of Louisiana it was against the law to separate children under the age of 11 years old from their parents. ... It was against the law for slaves to read, write and name their children after themselves. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ...
Although owners, as early as the 1640's, considered Negroes and their children as slaves the term was not officially used until 1656 when it was mentioned in the Virginia laws of that year. By 1662 mulatto children, and all children, of slave mothers were to follow the status of their mother (Moore, 9) By the 18th century the south increasingly needed slaves to carry on their way of life. ... Conductors would take fugative slaves form plantations traveling single or as part of a group as far as the Ohio river or the Eastern shore of Maryland; they were then met by other agents after c...
The Slave Dancer a novel by Paula Fox, a tale which took place in the 1840s in New Orleans, Louisiana to the coasts of Africa and to the Mississippi River, the colonial years of America, when slave trade and land exploration was everyday life. ... He lives with his mother a widow, and his sister Betty, his father died, drowned in the Mississippi River. ... The shipped sailed by the coast and one by one brown bodies came on deck, men, women, children all together. ... Screams of women and children came from below the deck. ... Malnutrition made the slaves exhausted and the children as well. ...
Many could not survive in these harsh conditions, especially children. These children would become very ill and, after some beatings, they would be sent to me. ... The children wouldn't have to walk around any more wondering why the white children had beautiful names like Katherine Anne Freed and they responded to little Nigger. ... Then I was going to follow a river to the next city to catch a train. ... He had no other slaves and received all of his necessities from monthly visits from his children. ...
Her owner trusted her to watch over and raise the children of the slaves until they were old enough to begin their labor. She was allowed to keep her own cabin, and to farm food for the children and herself. ... She was a master fisher, and spent most of her days in the river or in the field farming. ... In slavery it was very common, before puberty, for a slave child to play with the master's children. ...
Kentucky shipped their products to both the European market via northern railways to access northern seaports and to the South via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. ... Many Kentuckians had families; brothers, fathers, children who had settled in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, or they themselves had migrated from areas such as Tennessee and Virginia. ... Access from the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers helped to determine the geographical divide for the South, as the Ohio River helped to determine the boundary for the north. ...
One of the formative events of her early childhood was witnessing her parents' grief over the loss of children who had been sold away. ... There she married a fellow slave named Thomas, with whom she had at least five children: two daughters and a son were sold away from her. ... Around 1829 Isabella Van Wagener moved to New York City with her two youngest children, Peter and Sophia. ... She became a roving minister, traveling around the Connecticut River valley to preach, sing, pray, and evangelize at camp meetings, in churches, or wherever she could find shelter and an audience. ... Whe...
Eli Whitney was born on December 8, 1765 in a New England town of Westborough, Massachusetts and was the first of four children to be born. ... From an early age, Whitney showed signs that he was not like any of the children of this age because at the age of eight he was able to disassemble a watch that his father had given him and he reconstructed it back to perfect working condition. ... But this method would only work if the plantation was by a river or stream. ...
The seventh out of thirteen children, she early exhibited her brilliance. ... They listened mesmerized to his touching stories about slave escapes, including one story about a young slave woman who escaped across a frozen river while carrying her baby in her arms. ... It was a problem she was to have while carrying all of her following children. ...
Allowed by their owners to bring up their children and organize their domestic lives, they carried out their chores, cooking, making clothes, and their leisure activities all within distance of their masters house enabled the slave community to flourish. ... Parents lived with their children although husbands might belong to another property. ... Slaves baptized in rivers where reminded of their African past "what mattered was that the convert understood God's work in his or her heart; it was not important if the minutiae of doctrine remained unknown and incomprehensible (Walvin 2001;p161...
(Bernard 48) The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers offered easy access for a slave's escape as well as the railroad system. ... They taxed the Negro's property to support schools for the education of white man's children, but the Negroes were not permitted to enjoy any of the benefits resulting from that taxation. ...
