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    Henry Clay Bruce, Twenty-Nine Years A Slave (1895) : by MR Mcdonald WWW - Schoolhistory.Co - Uk

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    Slavery in America was located primarily in the southern states, where vast plantations grew labor-intensive crops like cotton, tobacco, and other produce. Slaves suffered greatly in their daily lives. Source A describes how slave women worked in the fields daily and were allowed brief breaks to nurse children, who were cared for by elderly slaves no longer fit for field work. Source B recalls how the writer, as a child, could hear his mother's screams as she was whipped for being late to the fields. Source C reports on a slave girl who was tied to a tree and starved for almost a week as punishment, suggesting white owners faced no consequences for cruel treatment of slaves.

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    Slavery in America was located primarily in the southern states, where vast plantations grew labor-intensive crops like cotton, tobacco, and other produce. Slaves suffered greatly in their daily lives. Source A describes how slave women worked in the fields daily and were allowed brief breaks to nurse children, who were cared for by elderly slaves no longer fit for field work. Source B recalls how the writer, as a child, could hear his mother's screams as she was whipped for being late to the fields. Source C reports on a slave girl who was tied to a tree and starved for almost a week as punishment, suggesting white owners faced no consequences for cruel treatment of slaves.

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    Slavery in America was located primarily in the southern states, where vast plantations grew labor-intensive crops like cotton, tobacco, and other produce. Slaves suffered greatly in their daily lives. Source A describes how slave women worked in the fields daily and were allowed brief breaks to nurse children, who were cared for by elderly slaves no longer fit for field work. Source B recalls how the writer, as a child, could hear his mother's screams as she was whipped for being late to the fields. Source C reports on a slave girl who was tied to a tree and starved for almost a week as punishment, suggesting white owners faced no consequences for cruel treatment of slaves.

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    By Mr McDonald

    www.SchoolHistory.co.uk

    Lesson Aim: To investigate the impact of being a slave and how some
    resisted.

    Slaves suffered a horrible journey to America but that was only the start.
    If they survived, then their life would have to deal with the fact that they
    were now under the control of white people.

    Slavery in America was kept in the south of the country. That was because it
    was the area that was used for agriculture. In the south there were vast
    ‘plantations’ (farms) that grew cotton, tobacco and other produce. It was
    very labour intensive and so slaves were used rather than paid workers.

    In the north, America did not have slaves and whilst many people were racist
    towards black people, most agreed that slavery was wrong. Often, groups
    who were called abolitionists campaigned against slavery in places like Boston
    and New York.

    Slaves were often split into two groups; field hands (those that worked in
    the fields) and house slaves, who acted as servants.

    Source A
    Henry Clay Bruce, Twenty-Nine Years a Slave (1895)

    During the crop season in Virginia, slave men and women worked in the fields
    daily, and such females as had sucklings were allowed to come to them three
    times a day between sun rise and sun set, for the purpose of nursing their
    babes, who were left in the care of an old woman, who was assigned to the
    care of these children because she was too old or too feeble for field work.
    Such old women usually had to care for, and prepare the meals of all children
    under working age. They were furnished with plenty of good, wholesome food
    by the master, who took special care to see that it was properly cooked and
    served to them as often as they desired it. On very large plantations there
    were many such old women, who spent the remainder of their lives caring for
    children of younger women.
    Source B
    William Wells Brown, Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave
    (1847)

    During the time that Mr. Cook was overseer, I was a house servant - a
    situation preferable to that of a field hand, as I was better fed, better
    clothed, and not obliged to rise at the ringing of the bell, but about half an
    hour after. I have often laid and heard the crack of the whip, and the
    screams of the slave. My mother was a field hand, and one morning was ten
    or fifteen minutes behind the others in getting into the field. As soon as she
    reached the spot where they were at work, the overseer commenced
    whipping her. She cried, "Oh! pray - Oh! pray - Oh! pray" - these are
    generally the words of slaves, when imploring mercy at the hands of their
    oppressors. I heard her voice, and knew it, and jumped out of my bunk, and
    went to the door. Though the field was some distance from the house, I
    could hear every crack of the whip, and every groan and cry of my poor
    mother. I remained at the door, not daring to venture any further. The cold
    chills ran over me, and I wept aloud. After giving her ten lashes, the sound
    of the whip ceased, and I returned to my bed, and found no consolation but
    in my tears. Experience has taught me that nothing can be more heart-
    rending than for one to see a dear and beloved mother or sister tortured,
    and to hear their cries, and not be able to render them assistance. But such
    is the position which an American slave occupies.

    Source C
    New York Herald (19th October, 1844)

    I yesterday visited the cell of Cornelia, the slave charged with being the
    accomplice of Mrs. Ann Tanner (recently acquitted) in the murder of a little
    negro girl, by whipping and starvation. She admits her participancy, but says
    she was compelled to take the part she did in the affair. On one occasion she
    says the child was tied to a tree from Monday morning till Friday night,
    exposed by day to the scorching rays of the sun, and by night to the stinging
    of myriads of mosquitoes; and that during all this time the child had nothing
    to eat, but was whipped daily. The child told the same story to Dr. McDowell.
    Tasks

    1) Write the title and lesson aim in your exercise book along with the date.

    2) Where about in the United States was slavery located?

    3) Study Source A and answer the following questions.


    I. Did men and women work in the fields?
    II. Where did small children go and who looked after them?
    III. Why do you think all ages of slaves were used in the plantation?

    4) Study Source B and answer the following questions


    I. Is the writer of source B in favour of being a field hand or a house
    slave?
    II. What evidence is there that this was a better life?
    III. Why would a slave be whipped – what example is given in the source?
    IV. Why do you think when his mother was being whipped, William Brown
    did nothing to help?

    5) Study Source C and answer the following questions.


    I. Were white people committing crimes when they killed a slave through
    punishment?
    II. What happened to the person who killed the girl – was she punished?
    Compare this source, to source A and B, does it appear reliable? (If
    not why not)
    III. Why do you think this account was placed in a Northern newspaper
    when cities in the north did not have slavery?

    By Mr McDonald
    www.SchoolHistory.co.uk

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