Life as a Slave

1. Life as a Slave

2. Slave occupations • _____________________ in plantation house • _____________________ • _____________________ • Field Hand • Jobs • tend ______________________ • cutting ____________________ • picking ____________________ • ____________________ (white supervisors) when they • wanted a slave to work harder could punish them • usually with a ________________made of • ______________________ • ______________________ Servant Stable Hand Black Smith tobacco sugar cane cotton Overseers lashing rawhide cowhide

3. Treatment of slaves • _____________ worked • worked from sunup to sundown • about a __________ minute break for lunch • ___________________at night if it was a full moon. • Even young ___________________helped with chores • If they did their task incorrectly they would be • punished by the overseer • _______________________(these varied from plantation • to plantation) • food • clothing • a place to live Hours 15 Worked children Provisions

4. Slave Codes • ____________________________ • Laws passed to control enslaved people; denied slave • basic _____________________________ • could not testify against a white • had no standing in a court of law (court did not have • to recognized them) • could not own _____________________ • strike (hit) a white person even in • ______________________ • could not leave the plantation without permission • could not own ____________________ • could not hire themselves out • buy or sell goods • could not _________________ without a white person • present • could not learn to _______________ or • ___________________ human rights property self-defense guns assemble read write