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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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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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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