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The World of the Slaves

The World of the Slaves. John Sacher University of Central Florida jsacher@mail.ucf.edu. Sources for Slave Life. Slave Trade—Agency?. Plantation Layout. Slave Quarters. Clothing. Slave Weddings. Slave Religion. George Washington.

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The World of the Slaves

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  1. The World of the Slaves John Sacher University of Central Florida jsacher@mail.ucf.edu

  2. Sources for Slave Life

  3. Slave Trade—Agency?

  4. Plantation Layout

  5. Slave Quarters

  6. Clothing

  7. Slave Weddings

  8. Slave Religion

  9. George Washington “There is nothing which stands in greater need of regulation than the Waggons and Carts at the Mansion House, which always whilst I was at home appeared to be most wretchedly employed---first in never carrying half a load; --secondly in flying form one thing to another; and thirdly in no person seeming to know really what they did; and often times under the pretence of doing this, that and the other thing, doing nothing at all.”

  10. Charles Ball • “I was never acquainted with a slave who believed, that he violated any rule of morality by appropriating to himself any thing that belonged to his master, if ti was necessary to his comfort.”

  11. Trickster Tales

  12. Slave “Diseases” • Drapetomia • Dysaethesia Aethiopica

  13. Runaway Slaves

  14. Harriet Tubman Runaway Slave Ad

  15. Fugitive Slave Act

  16. Stono Rebellion (1739) Gabriel Prosser

  17. Gabriel’s Rebellion (1800) “I have nothing more to offer than what General Washington would have had to offer, had he been taken by the British and put to trial by them. I have adventured my life in endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am willing sacrifice in their cause: and I beg, as a favour, that I may be immediately led to execution. I know that you have pre-determined to shed my blood, why then all this mockery of a trial?"

  18. Nat Turner’s Rebellion

  19. Solomon Northup “Without arms or ammunition, or even with them I saw a step that would result in certain defeat disaster and death . . .”

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