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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Though the Europeans used Africans as slaves because they knew how to farm land and also were very hard workers. ... See Africans cared about their family and land. They worked hard in farming crops and hunting animals to provide food for their families. ...

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Being able to work on a farm for a hacendado, was sometimes the only way to create a livable environment for one's family. ... Another distinct faction of the native's lives that changed because of imperialism was the specific jobs of the family. The family was, for the first time, able to be seen as an Economic Unit. When a family had a child that would survive, it was seen as a great blessing because each child would normally bring about substantial improvement in the family fortune. ... A second way in which families were seen as economic units was because of the simple fact that...

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As some of them were brought from different parts of Africa, they also struggled because of language and left behind their families causing changes in sociological order. ... As the demand for slaves increased because of the settlement of Englishmen in America, the number of slaves reached 11 million, who were divided among farm workers and servants. ... Most of the people that come to America never had any education, and most of them come from poor families. ...

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Having a household of slaves in Greek times to every wish they wanted was not only convenient, but it also showed how important and fasinonable the family is. ... A sailor who sometimes worked on slave ships said that they were separated from their families and connections with as little concern as calves and pigs are selected out of a lot of domestic animals. ... Sometimes the escapers even dressed in disguises, or given farm tools to carry. ...

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In scenes mirrored across Europe over this period in history the majority of the wealth generated from the slave trade was held by a capital owning elite in France, one family that prevailed in this industry was the Montaudoinsm's, a trading family that alone were responsible for the sending of 357 ships to cultivate slaves to be used in plantations across the Americas10. ...

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Torn from her family at age twelve, she details her daily duties and terrors without exaggeration. Of harvesting, washing, nursing her mistress's children, cooking, tending farm animals and other miscellaneous "work - work - work!...

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