The Lifestyle Of Slaves And How Difficult It Was

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Life as a slave may perhaps be the worst kind of lifestyle a human could have. Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to American, the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. They were brought to help in the production of tobacco crops. The lifestyle of each slave deepened on the way the owner would treat them, lifestyle as a slave also varied all over the South for many different reasons. Slaves developed man developed their own celebrations, many of them religious. A daily life of a slave was relative to their labor, their family life, relations with masters and religious belief. Another thing that was a factor on the lifestyle a slave had was if you were a man or woman. In general for all slaves there were expectations they owner had on them and they basically had to ruled their life’s by them. I believe that living a life as a slave is no doubt of the most difficult things anyone can experience, today we take freedom as a right that we have and we never stop and think that there were people who were born and raise without free will and weren’t masters of their destiny.
Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and slaves build the economic foundations of the new nation. Black slaves developed a whole lifestyle surrounding their very few privileges they really had. Slaves were treated very harsh in general but owners were way harder on the northern area of the South versus the Deep South. Slaves worked between 8 and 16 hours a day (http://library.thinkquest.org), it really depended in what kind of work did the slave had. They could be a field Workers; worked from sunrise to sunset or even more during harvest working some of the hardest jobs there are, or they could also be house Slaves; most of house slaves worked under better conditions than field workers, Some house slaves lived in attics, closets, or corners in the big house even if their families lived in the quarters (http://library.thinkquest.org). The only big difference was...

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