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Slave Children: Role of play, games and sport

Slave Children: Role of play, games and sport. Functional. TERMS. PLAY GAME SPORT Athletics. People, events, dates. Slavery: Social and Economic Institution. Slave Industry. 1619: 1 st Blacks in Jamestown, VA. 1641: Massachusetts Colony sanctioned enslavement

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Slave Children: Role of play, games and sport

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  1. Slave Children: Role of play, games and sport Functional

  2. TERMS • PLAY • GAME • SPORT • Athletics

  3. People, events, dates Slavery: Social and Economic Institution

  4. Slave Industry • 1619: 1st Blacks in Jamestown, VA. • 1641: Massachusetts Colony sanctioned enslavement • 1755: All Colonies recognized slavery • 1783: Fugitive Slave LAW • 1793: “Cotton Gin”

  5. Slave Trade

  6. Cotton Gin

  7. Hopkinsons Plantation Slaves: Going to Fields

  8. Crispus Attucks • 1770: 1st casualty of the Revolution • Boston Massacre • Seaman, laborer,

  9. Constitutional Convention of 1787 Negros had “been regarded as being of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man found to respect.”

  10. Slavery/Institution • Between 1828-1860: The number of slaves grew from about 1.5 million to nearly 4 million. • The number of great plantations (50 or more slaves) were between 6,000 and 7,000.

  11. Indian Ocean: E. African slaves- Dutch HMS Daphne 1868 (Nov.1)

  12. Gender, Age, Region 1812 Adult Male field hand- $300 ( More for blacksmiths) By 1858: Northern Virginia: prime field hand- $1,350 and skilled slaves- $1,500 Slave women: Highly valuable- $1,800 Slave Trade: Cost

  13. Slave Family • Field Hands • House servants

  14. Religion

  15. Drad Scott Case: Supreme Court Drad Scott v. Sanford Scott ( a slave) lived in free state ( Ill.) and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to Missouri ( a slave state). Appealed case to Supreme Court

  16. Dred Scott Decision Chief Justice Taney (1857) Negroes of slave descent are legally inferior order of being, were not and could not possibly become citizens in the service in which the word was used in the constitution.

  17. Dred Scott: Court House and Museum (. St. Louis)

  18. Scott Grave

  19. Play and Leisure Before the holidays there were pleasures in prospect; after the holidays there were pleasures of memory, and they served to keep out thoughts and wishes of a more dangerous character Frederick Douglass

  20. SKATING ON FROZEN PONDS HORSESHOES WALK ON STILTS MARBLES JUMPING ROPE RING GAMES/ DANCES 7. HIDE THE SWITCH NO BOGYMAN TONIGHT Sheep Meat-yarn ball BASEBALL, BOXING, WRESTLING, FOOT RACES, DANCES PLAY OF SLAVE CHILDREN

  21. Walking on Stilts

  22. GAMES/RECREATION EFFORTS TO REDUCE TRUANCY AND INSURRECTION • EXTRA FOOD AND CLOTHING • PERIODS OF RECREATION (GOOD FRIDAY, CHRISTMAS) • HOLIDAYS - ALCOHOL • ON SUNDAY – SLAVES PERMITTED TO VISIT NEARBY FARMS

  23. GAME “HALEY- OVER” Dey played Haley-over by a crowd gitting on each side of de house and throwing a ball from one side to de other. Whoever got de ball would run around on de other side and hit somebody wid it; den he was out of de game. (Newell, Collector of American Games)

  24. GAMES “SHUCK DAT CORN”

  25. Games: Berate Whites • My old mistress promised me, • before she dies she would set me free, • Now she’s dead and gone to hell. • I hope the devil will burn her well.

  26. RECREATION (A) Good Friday (B) Christmas Day or Sunday

  27. Slave Humor Signifying (putting down or berating another person) Verbal contest ; the dozens, dissin

  28. SLAVE ACTIVITIES Wrestling Boxing Running Dancing

  29. American Slavery From Plantation to the Playing Fields

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