Life as a Slave

Slave occupations• _____________________ in plantation house• _____________________• _____________________• Field Hand

o Jobs tend ______________________ cutting ____________________ picking ____________________

o____________________ (white supervisors) when they wanted a slave to work harder could punish them

usually with a ________________made of____________________________________________

Servant Stable HandBlack Smith

tobaccosugar cane

cottonOverseers

lashingrawhidecowhide

Treatment of slaves• _____________ worked

o worked from sunup to sundown o about a __________ minute break for

luncho___________________at night if it was a full

moon.• Even young ___________________helped with

choresoIf they did their task incorrectly they

would be punished by the overseer

• _______________________(these varied from plantation to plantation)ofood oclothingoa place to live

Hours

15Worked

children

Provisions

____________________________• Laws passed to control enslaved people;

denied slave basic _____________________________ocould not testify against a whiteohad no standing in a court of law (court did

not have to recognized them)

ocould not own _____________________ostrike (hit) a white person even in

______________________ocould not leave the plantation without

permissionocould not own ____________________ocould not hire themselves outobuy or sell goodsocould not _________________ without a white

person present

ocould not learn to _______________ or ___________________

readwrite

assemble

guns

self-defense

property

human rights

Slave Codes