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ROPS Week 13- Slavery in North America: Life and Death on the Plantations
ROPS Week 13- Slavery in North America: Life and Death on the Plantations
British North America
1663- Carolinas chartered
1664- New York, New Jersey
1630-1636- Founding of Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut
1681- Pennsylvania
1732- Georgia
1620- Plymouth Colony, New England
1607- Founding of Jamestown, Virginia
Some 2.5 million out of an enslaved population of 4 million in 1850, were employed as agricultural labourers
Domestic servants
Skilled slaves and artisans
Task and Gang Systems- coercion and reward
Working Conditions and Environment
Disease
Diet
Hunting and Fishing
Traded- milk, coffee, molasses
Home produced- vegetables, sweet potatoes, rice, eggs, poultry
Deficiencies- Riboflavin, Vitamin B and Vitamin C
‘Peck’- about 2 gallons of corn meal- 3 or 4 pounds of salt pork and bacon
Clothing- majority of slaves dressed in rags
Housing- poor
Slave Family and Culture
Slave culture and the debate over ‘African survivals’
Ring-Shout- Music, magic and superstition
Religion- Moses and the 'Invisible Church'
Folk Tales
Family separation and the slave trade
'Brer Rabbit'
Was 'family life' possible?
Revolts
Stono, 1739
NYC, 1741
NYC, 1712
Day-to-Day Resistance
Breaking tools
Arson and Poisoning
Working slowly
self-harm, suicide, infanticide
Running Away
Permanent escape
'Underground Railroad'
Short-term