Life In The Rough Research Paper

Life in the Rough Slavery is known to be one of the most controversial topics in history. Many historians have different views regarding slavery and how it affected the people. Some say that slavery was a system in which African-Americans were able to live peacefully with their masters. Other believe that slaves were treated too harsh and were constantly rebelling against their master. Although these views both hold truth, neither of them are one hundred percent true. Although a majority of slaves lived peaceful lives under kind masters, some slaves were abused by their masters who tried to make the slaves’ lives terrible by forcing them to work long, hard hours. With the change of the plantation system between 1700 and 1830, the quality of life for the slaves increased significantly. Before the change in the system, a majority of slaves were young, African men who had been brought from Africa or the Caribbean to work on tiny, isolated farms. Most a slaves had no way of communicating with one another and had difficulty settling down in a family due to the lack of women on the farm. After the change in …show more content…
Most slaveholders did whatever was necessary to encourage marriage between slaves. By encouraging these marriages, the master would keep his slaves from running away and new slaves would be born. However, due to the economic issues during this time, slaveholders were often forced to sale slaves, which would destroy attempts at creating a stable family life. Another factor that led the slave families being broken apart was that the marriage of a slave women did not prevent her from having to meet the sexual demands of her master. A slave woman would often be kept from her children due to her work in the fields. Even though the families were met with many obstacles, the slave families did their best to create a long lasting and loving environment for their