Slavery in America

Slavery in America ( 1619 – 1865 )

Slaves lived in overcrowded cabins (huts or little African houses).

 

They ate banana, rice, yams but no decent or proper meals.

Their hygiene was really bad so they were often sick and they died young, because of epidemics.

At the beginning they worked in wheat, sugar canes and tobacco fields.

Once a year, they received clothes and a pair of shoes they had to keep all year round. They didn’t have personal objects.

They began work early and they stopped late. The pregnant women and children aged 10 years old had to work on the same plantations. They experienced moral and physical violence. They were treated like cattle. They couldn’t write nor read.

At the end of day, they were exhausted.

They had problems, for example insufficient food and unsafe water.