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1 Slavery in the U.S.

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Slavery in the U.S.

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The Middle Passage This was the journey from West Africa

across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

Africans were crowded and chained cruelly aboard slave ships.

Diseases such as dysentery, malaria, and small pox killed thousands of Africans on this journey.

20 percent of those who took this journey did not survive.

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Why were Africans used as slaves?

They did not get sick from many diseases in the Americas.

They could work in hot weather.

What two crops were common in the South?

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Arriving in America If slaves survived

the Middle Passage they were sold at markets in America.

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Plantations

Many slaves were brought to work on plantations.

A plantation is a farm that grows only one crop (examples are cotton and tobacco).

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Slave Life

Slaves worked in the fields, in the house, or did anything else their master told them to do. They worked up to 18 hours a day.

They were not allowed to learn to read or write.

They were forbidden to own property.

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Slave Homes Slaves often lived

in small log cabins with dirt floors. They were cold and dirty.

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SLAVES ARE PROPERTY!

What are these and what were they used for?

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Punishments If a slave ran away and

were caught they might have to wear a neck ring.

If they continued to run away they might have a hand or foot removed.

Many slaves were whipped for disobeying their masters.

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Review Questions-Answer in complete sentences.

1. What was the Middle Passage? 2. What two crops were common in

the South?3. What were plantations?4. What war did the disagreement

over slavery lead to?