Life+of+Slaves

kuResearch: Why were slaves economically important to the South? What were the working conditions for the slaves like? What did they do when they were not working? How were they treated? What happened to their families?

barrington rotaton1 Jacob/rotation 1 kevin/  Jacob/rotation  1   Jacob/rot   ation 1 Kevin s.rotation1 3/29/10 nettrekker Tyson/rotation 2 biography 3/29/10 Fredrick Douglass was born in to slavery.Fredrick's mother was taken to be a slave and he never new his white father.He was only seven years old when his mother past away.As more time past he learned how to read but slaves were not supposed to read so he ran away started working on books and speeches to change the minds of slaves supporters and slave owners,he now was Abolitionst.Then he died when he was 77 of an heart attack.

Kevin/rotation 1 nettekker 3/25/10 Slaves were very important to the south, because they work really hard,but it pays off to the ones who are not slaves.The slaves they plant seeds that grow food,but most of all they plant cotton.Cotton was made for a lot of stuff,so slaves are very important to the south. Jacob/rotation 1 netTrekker 3/25/10 People were regarded as property and was mostly branded or had to wear signs,or symbols to identify who they belonged to.It was estimated that 11-12 million Africans were carried across the Atlantic .Cruel and severe punishments were used to keep order and ensure a steady pace work.Did you know sometimes slaves where seperated from their families.

Miracle/rotation2 Nettekker3/25/10 The slaves were very important to the south,because they work hard picking cotton and house hold slaves and the slave owner go payed. The work conditions were hard working ,little food ,and no pay.What they did when they were not working they went to sleep and on the holiday they went to go see there family in the slave homes. They were treated very bad they got beating. What happen to there family was the children they became slaves at a older and the got seperated from there family.

barrington summerfield 3/29/10 rotation 1book.most of the slaves worked in fields but for all their hard work they get nothing not even a day off but if they slow down their work they get whipped by men called overseers that sometimes carry guns and knives they know when slaves slow down because they are watching them the slaves know to start working when they see light.African families were split apart parents and their children were bought by different slave owners.house slaves were respected better then field slaves house slaves got to go to the market with the masters wife.

Jacob/rotation1 3/29/10 John brown A white man,led an attack on the Arsenal at harpers Ferry,Virginia in 1859.He hoped to start a slave revolt with the guns.Instead ,Brown was captured ,and was put down.Sojourner truth she also escaped from slavery.Then she worked for the freedom of all people.Did you know that house slaves were treated better than field slaves. Kevin s./rotation1 3/29/10 nettrekker There was a guy who was in slavery, and he didn't want to be in slavery,so he decided that he goes into a box in the box goes to Philadelphia witch is in the north.[no slavery] he made it to Philadelpha and he didn't have to work any more.

Kevin s./rotation1 3/29/10 book Families in the south who are slaves their families get seperated, and even their babies get seperated from their mom and dad.



Aryana G. 4/8/10 net Trekker Harriet Tubman was born in slavery.She was a well known conductor of the Under Ground Railroad,she had a partner Fredrick Douglass.they never lost a slave,they took them to safe houses.Out of all of the slaves they saved about 300 slaves including babies and dogs.