“Here, too, the slaves of all the other farms received their monthly allowance of food, and their yearly clothing. The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal. Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes; the whole of which could not have cost more than seven dollars.”
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The quote I picked out shocked me because it discussed how awful the life of an American slave really was. Throughout the chapters of this reading it opened my eyes to how cruel people were to slaves. The meals each slave had and the monthly allowance they had is truly awful. The reading made me think about how much the past has changed the future over these years. In modern times slavery is not seen in the United States but there are many examples of slavery still in these modern times. However, in the modern United States there are still forms of segregation within communities. Segregation has been going on for such a long time that it just keeps creeping into the present.
