Chapter 5-1 Part II Structured Notes
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þ Most enslaved African Americans lived in rural areas where they worked on ______and
______.
þ On small farms enslaved people did a variety of jobs. On large farms, most slaves were assigned to specific jobs.
o Supervisors who carried out master’s orders and issued punishments to other slaves were known as ______.
þ Most plantation owners used the ______system where all field hands worked at the same time on the same task.
þ Working in the field
§ Most slaves worked from ______to ______.
§ Boys and Girls older than ______usually all did the same tasks.
§ The slaves that worked 24 hours a day, but had better food, clothing, and shelter normally worked in the ______.
þ On larger plantations, some enslaved African Americans worked at skilled jobs like ______or ______.
o Slaves that worked skilled jobs often could earn enough money to buy back their freedom.
o William Ellison
§ Earned his freedom in South Carolina by working as a cotton gin maker. For years, he worked late at night and on Sundays. He bought his freedom with the money he earned. Eventually, he was even able to buy his wife and daughters freedoms.
þ Most slave owners viewed slaves as ______and not people.
§ The most common method of slave was an ______. The auction was the only thing that determined if a slave’s family would stay together.
þ Living Conditions
§ Enslaved people lived through poor living conditions. Planters housed them in ______cabins with few furnishings and often leaky roofs.
þ Slaves tried to improve their small food rations in any way they could.
§ Some planters allowed slaved to keep ______for vegetables, and chickens for eggs.
þ Some planters offered ______or ______to encourage slave’s to be more obedient. However, most slaveholders used punishment instead. Some would punish one slave more harshly as a warning to others.
“The punishments were whipping, putting you in the stocks [wooden frames to lock people in] and making you wear irons and a chain at work. Than they had a collar to put around your neck with town horns, so that you could not lie down… Sometimes they dug a hole like a well with a door on top. This they called a dungeon keeping you in it two or three weeks or a month, or sometimes till you died in there”
þ ______was the most important aspect of slave communities, slaves feared separation more than they feared punishment. Enslaved parents kept their ______alive by passing down their family histories as well as their ______customs and traditions.
o ______, ______, and ______had laws that allowed the fining and whipping of anyone caught teaching slaves.
§ ______: stories with a moral; often included a clever animal character called a trickster.
þ Religion also played an important part in slave culture. By the early 1800s many slaves were ______. This is because they identified with the slabs in the ______.
o ______: EMOTIONAL Christian songs that blended African and European music.
þ In small ways slaves rebelled against the system daily.
o Sometimes they worked slower and other times they ran away to avoid their master’s.
o Many southerners lived in fear of ______, even though few occurred.
§ The most violent slave revolt in the United States happened in 1831 and it was known as ______.
“The oldest inhibitions of our country have never experienced such a distressing [terrible] time, as we have had since Sunday night last. The [slaves], about fifteen miles from this place, have massacred from 50 to 75 women and children, and some 8 to 10 men. Every house, room and corner in this place is full of women and children, driven from home, who had to take the woods, until they could get to this place. We are worn out with fatigue [tiredness].”