Slavery+Web+Guide


 * Website 1**

1) You were most likely coming from West Africa. 2) The two ways you would be transferred were walk to the coast of Africa and then take a ship to America. 3) The conditions on the ship were terrible. The ship was dirty, smelled, and it was very crowded. The journey was two to three months long. You were not able to sit wherever you wanted to. You wore chains the fastened you to people on both sides. You had to lie down because the ceiling was to low. 4) After the ship ride they gave you a few weeks to become healthier and then the slave trader would sell you to whoever was willing to pay the most.


 * Website 2**

1) During the day you would work in the fields. You would be planting, hoeing, or picking cotton. 2) At night the things that you would eat were corn, sweet potatoes, or whatever your owners had left over and didn't want to eat. Even after getting food most people went to bed hungry and tired. The food wasn't enough for them. 3) If you were a slave your owner, the overseer, or any free person could beat you whenever the wanted to. The could also embarrass you. They didn't have to have a reason to do any of these things. 4) No, owners did not always keep families together. The owner could take away your wife and kids. He could sell you kids to anyone without asking for permission.


 * Website 3**

1) You started working as soon as it was light in the morning and stop when it was to dark to see outside. Other then 10 min. to eat cold bacon at noon you were not given a break. You were not rewarded for you hard work in the fields. When the field work was over you would be scared because then it was time to go to the gin house. Here the cotton that you collected was weighed. If you collected less you were beaten. If you collected more, your master would expect the same amount tomorrow. You had many other jobs besides picking cotton. People were given chores to do around the house. Some of them were; one person would feed the mule, another the swine, one would cut wood, and much more. There was no time for the slaves to relax other than the little time they had to eat and sleep. They didn't have anything like weekends.


 * Website 4**

1) Most slaves chose not to run away. Only a fraction of slaves would run away 2) Millions of people lived in bondage, where the chose to fight slavery in subtle ways such as; work slowdowns, sabotage, and "sickness".


 * Website 5**

1) I think that the military would have caught Nat and he would have been killed or severly punished. 2) I was right. He was caught and later executed. 3) If you fought back there was a very slim chance that you would be able to gain back your freedom. The military was there was they had more power and people than you would be able to get together. If you did try to revolt the military would most likely capture you and you would be killed.


 * Website 6**

1) There is a group of stars that is called the Drinking Gourd. The two stars at the edge of the cup always point to the North Star and the North Star tells you what direction is north. 2) If you are escaping you should leave at night while it is raining. That way the dogs won't have a good scent to follow. 3) You shouldn't trust anyone because the slave catchers can pay other slaves to give you up. Don't tell anyone that you are planning to leave. 4) You should look out for houses that have a light in the window at night. That means that it is a safe place. 5) I hid. 6)I hid because it would be easier for someone to find us in the daylight. It didn't matter that the journey was longer as long as my sister and I were safe. 7) The slave catchers were looking for us, but because we were hiding they didn't find us. 8) I tried to find some corn. 9) I wanted to because the weather was so bad and my sister and I were not in a position to go without food. 10) I didn't get caught. The kid came and warned me to leave otherwise I would be caught. 11) Yes, I think that my freedom is worth risking my life for. Slaves didn't have a choices, they were beat mericlessly, the were worked to death. I would have ran away. I would have rather died than be killed slowly from the hardships of being a slave. In a way I think that it would have been worse if I had to stay working as a slave. By running away even if I was killed I know that I had tried. I hadn't just spent my life working under someone else's conditions. I had put forth an effort to gain my freedom.