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 **Welcome to the Online Exhibit on Slavery! Enjoy.**  ** media type="youtube" key="JFwySsWvnxA" width="425" height="350" video with pictures of slavery Video taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwySsWvnxA **    Slaves were denied the right to learn how to read or write, though thousands of slaves learned through watching their young masters' or misstress' school lessons. Slaves that were able to read or write tried to pass on their ability to other slaves. Older slaves set a goal to read the Bible before they died. The slaves also told survival stories that came from African culture. The stories often involved animals, such as Brer Rabbit, a tale that is still known today. [|Slave Education]  (go to this site if you would like to extend your knowledge on slavery education, culture, and more)  **Culture and Religion:**  When the African Americans were brought to America, they were forced to get rid of all of their culture. Examples include their language and drumming. Slaves were also to have their own last name. Unfortunately for the, they had to combine their rememberance of their own African culture with the new European culture create a whole new way of life. Slaves were denied the right to practice their own religion; forced to practice a form of Christianity introduced by their Masters. The Masters would selectively read from the Holy Bible, the sections which supported slavery overuling others. Still, most slaves believed in a God that frowned upon slavery and promised a better life in Heaven. A slave's form of Christianity was one of liberation and hope. Slave Christianity was so different from what was known to free people, that it even had its own interpretation of sin. For slaves, it was okay to steal from the rich white, but not from other slaves who had absolutely nothing like themselves. The slaves used their religious beliefs and hopes to cope and deal with the everyday conflicts and crises between them and whites. Christianity, for some slaves, was their only version of hope. This is why it was so significant to their survival through each work day.   **Male Roles:** In slavery, male slaves were more valuble than women because of their physical strength. Their labor included plowing, wood chopping, and building houses. On large plantations, there was always a gender line between jobs. However, on smaller plantations, men and women were equals and generally peformed the same jobs. [|Male & Female Roles] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (To learn more about the roles of men **and** women slaves, go to this site).
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<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Female Roles:** <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The average female role differed from the average male role in slavery. Women did work in the fields although not nearly as often as men. They were more useful by working as nannies, cooking or hoeing. After 1807 when the U.S. outlawed the importation of slaves the female role changed dramaticly. The idea of breeding slaves became a larger concept. young woman of 19 would become very valuble; she could provide plenty of work hands for the master's plantation. Sometimes even masters would take part in the breeding. This was an easy way to increase the population of slaves without importing them. Women died at a younger age because they birthed too many childern too quickly. A female slave would be tired out once she reached the age of twenty five. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The young slave children would have to go to the fields during the day and were often tied up to trees while their parents worked. By the age of five most children would have small jobs to do each day. They would range from watching over the younger children or helping make meals. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Elderly Slaves ** If the Elderly slaves got too sick to work the master would most likely order the slaves not to care for that person any longer. Many slaves did not reach old age due to overwork, disease, or mistreatment. **Plantation Life (in general):** <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each family either shared a cabin with only their family, and sometimes one other family.Watch this video on slavery to get a better feel for slave life. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For slaves, life on the plantation was horrible, hard work. With a the master or overseer watching all the time they could never rest. Large plantations were like small villages and so they were often isolated from the rest of the world. Work on plantations never ended for slaves. To learn more about plantation life visit-http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm media type="youtube" key="dFAExzwjDC0" width="441" height="366" video taken from [|www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFAExzwjDCO!] _**http://www.buffalolib.org/events/images/web2free.gif__ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Slaves_in_chains_(grayscale).png
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Young     **<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Children:   **

**Master's Role: Justification of Slavery:** <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">White people jusitfied the evils of slavery by telling themse  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">lves lies until they believed them. Slave ownerswould tell themselves that if they let the African Americans free that they would never be able to provide for themselves. They made themselves belie  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ve that they were helping the slaves by housing and feeding them. They also made themselves beliece that blacks were inferior to whites and this is how God intended it to be. The masters claimed that sla  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">very was better than their past lives in Africa. They claimed that it helped civilize the slave  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">s because they were wild. W  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">hen the slaves were freed by the Civil War the southern plantat   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ion owners claimed that it was thanks to them that the slave   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">s   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> w   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">er   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">e   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">civilized. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hey! You think you know a lot about slavery? Check out this awesome website to see how well you know your stuff while you shoot some hoops! It's tons of fun. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/hoopshoot/hoop_slavery.html <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If you visited a southern plantation the first thing on it you would notice is the master's home also called the “Big House." The owners of the plantation would often situate their houses so that they would te the whole landscape. This way the workers and visitors would never forget who owned the plantation. The masters and es job was to keep an eye on the plantation and make sure that everything was in order.

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