Slavery history project

1. Text
Story book project about slaves.
By: Natalie Witherspoon

2. Once upon a time way back in the old days
when blacks and whites were separated, there
was something called slavery.

3. What was Slavery???
Slavery was people that were treated as property and
were forced to work. Slaves can be held against their
will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth,
and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or
to demand compensation. When a Slave gave birth
the child is born a slave. And if a child is born during
work in the field then the slave takes the baby to
someone to take care of it then is expected to return
back to work within a few hours. A slave was expected
to start working at the age of 13-20.

5. Christmas/ Education
The only time Slaves could pretend they were free
was on Christmas.
Slaves were not allowed to get and education, they
couldn’t read or write. Slaves were not allowed to use
books, pen, ink, or paper.
John Chavis in Raleigh, North Carolina, ran secret
night schools. Teachers found educating black
children would be run out of town.

6. Christmas

7. Punishment
Slave owners in Virginia smoked slaves. This
included whipping slaves and putting them in a
tobacco smokehouse." Moses Roper claimed that in
South Carolina they use to "drive nails into a
hogs head so as to leave the point of the nail just
protruding in the inside of the Casket. Into this he
used to put his slaves for punishment, and roll
them down a very long and steep hill.”

8. Punishment

9. Slave ownership
Most plantations were owner operated and the
planters were often worked in the fields. Most
of the southern white population was
8,099,760 in 1860, only 384,000 owned
slaves.These 10,780 owned 50 or more. It was
calculated that about 88% of Americas slave
owners, owned 20 slaves or less.

10. Marriage
Most slave owners wanted their slaves to marry.
Because they thought that married men was less
likely to be rebellious or to run away. Some owners
favored marriage for religious reasons and it was in
the interests of plantation owners for women to have
children. Some plantation owners promised women
slaves their freedom after they have had 15 children.
Several slaves recorded in their autobiographies that
they were reluctant to marry women from the same
plantation.

11. Marriage
If a slave man and woman
wished to marry, a party
would be arranged some
Saturday night with the
slaves. The marriage ceremony
consisted of the pair jumping
over a stick. And if no children
were born within a year or so,
the wife was sold.

12. What were Field Slaves?
Field slaves were slaves that worked out in the
fields and planted crops such as tobacco, rice,
sugar, and cotton. Slaves were in the fields from
sunrise to sunset and at harvest time they did 18
hours day. Women worked the same hours as the
men and pregnant women were expected to
continue until their child was born.

13. Field Slaves

14. Housing
The homes provided for slaves usually consisted of
wooden shacks with dirt floors. They were built to
house two families.Some had partitions, while
others had none. When there were no partitions each
family would fit up their own part as good they
could. Sometimes they got old boards and nailed
them up, stuffing the cracks with rags. When they
could not get boards they hung up old clothes.

15. Housing

16. Religion
In the South black people were not usually allowed
to attend church services. Those churches that did
accept them, would segregate them from white
worshipers.
One of the main reasons why owners did not want
their slaves to become Christians involved the Bible.
They feared that slaves might interpret the teachings
of JesusChrist as being in favor of equality.

17. Religion

18. Quakers
Quakers Played Major Role in Ending Slavery in
The United States. What they would do is they
would buy slaves and then set them free.
Quakers also played a huge role in organizing and
running the “Underground Railroad.” This was a
system of secret routes and safe houses that helped
run away slaves reach freedom in the northern states
and in Canada.

19. Quakers
A slave the Quakers set free.

20. !e End(: