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Slavery in the New World (Slavery in the Caribbean (A harsh place to work…
Slavery in the New World
Slavery in the Caribbean
A harsh place to work was in salt ponds. Most of the slaves would get boils on their feet from working long hours.
Most slaves didn't wear shoes because they couldn't afford them so they would create their own with grass or leaves.
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Slaves would find as many ways they could to rebel back to their owners by burning their food to even trying to burn down their plantations.
In the Caribbean, they had to keep importing slaves because they couldn't keep the population up from the high death rate every year.
Most owners would weekly feed their slaves small proportions of food like sweet potatoes and maize. Many slaves died from starvation in times where there wasn't any food.
Many slaves tried to run away or committed suicide to get away from the terrible conditions they were in.
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Many men and women would have unfair treatment. Lots of women, even pregnant would be beaten and chained, even branded so they could not escape.
They first imported mainly men because they thought they were stronger and they would work them to death but then they imported more women so they could give birth to the next generation of slaves.
Slavery in Mount Vernon
A house servant and and a skilled laborer was viewed as high ranking more than field work so they could be threatened to become a field worker. Other ways they could have been punished were whippings, beatings, and physical restraints utilized to make sure they did not run away
If threats of demotion and whipping did not succeed in changing a slaves behavior, the ultimate form of punishment was to sell that individual away from the plantation.
Marriages produced a significant number of children, causing the population of the plantation to increase dramatically and in 1799 children lived in households preferably with the female, and were assigned small jobs or chores.
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Washington occasionally tried to encourage an individual´s pride as motivation. Finer quality blankets and clothes and sometimes direct cash was given to the slaves that were ¨most deserving¨
Mount Vernon´s community always took opportunities, when possible, to physically escape their enslavement
There were 22 Mount Vernon slaves married individuals who lived and worked on other plantations. For these couples to have met, and formed attachments they had to have been given a certain amount of freedom of movement for them to travel from farm to farm.
Almost three quarters of the working slaves at Mount Vernon labored in fields, and 61% were women. Also slaves who were physically disabled in some way were given less physically demanding jobs like making clothing or shoes.
Because the number of clothes issued to each individual was minimal, it would not have been uncommon for the slaves to wear the same clothing day after day.
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People who worked on farms had the advantage of having slave quarters that held no more than two families when a regular slave quarter would have more than 2
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The enslaved population typically worked from the sun rising until set in the evening with 2 hours of meal time
