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Slavery in the New World (Slavery in the Caribbean (cutting-cane-antigua…
Slavery in the New World
Slavery in the Caribbean
Plantation owners would provide salt herrings, sweet potatoes, and corn. However, slaves still suffered from starvation.
Plantation owners did not provide shoes for the slaves. This affected the slaves a lot when working on the plantation.
Women were labored as field hands or servants for their masters in their homes. At the end of a long, hard day they were forced to provide sexual services to the men, such as planters, managers, and visitors.
The "healthy" slaves would do the harder work. The younger and older slaves would do less physical tasks such as cleaning or guarding.
Salt ponds in Turk's Island were very harsh. The workers would suffer from boils very often (pus-filled bump) from sitting in the saltwater for hours and hours a day.
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Slave codes is a law based on the concept that slaves are not people, they are property. These codes ordered that although they were property, they are not to be abused. However, that was frequently ignored and owners did not follow those rules.
Slaves would commit suicide because of the condition they were living in and how the plantation owners treated them.
When the slaves were on their way to the Caribbean, they were shoved on a ship and chained to each other.
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The slave death rate was so high and the birth rate was so low, the population was very unstable.
Slavery at Mount Vernon
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Washington first slave was at the age of 11 after his dad died. At Washington's death there were 317 slaves still working on the
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When Martha and George died they wrote in there will that all the slaves working in Mount Vernon would be free.
Violent measures such as whipping and beatings were used so slaves didn't run away. Many believe that Washington didn't believe in whipping but other facts proves that his men did it on his plantation.
Both free people and slaves got Sundays off. Every year they got holidays such as Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. This shows the environment and how they were being treated.
At Mount Vernon there were many children due to the fact that there were marriages. This increased the population from 50 to 300 slaves.
Most of the slaves working on the plantation were either born in nearby plantation in Virginia or shipped from Africa.
