What Are The Effects Of Slavery In America

Slavery was a rough time for any African and African Americans. All over America, slaves were mistreated over worked and rarely rewarded for the hard work they put in for their masters. The location that these slaves were in affected in how they were treated and the labor they would have to take part in. For example in the South rules for how slaves were treated was much worse than slaves that were in the north and the type of labor was needed would be different according to what was needed in that region. Sex also determined the type of labor the slaves would do. Men would mostly work outside where the women could be more like a housemaid or caregiver taking care of the children. An example of this would be Mrs. Laura Smalley from Hampstead, Texas and Fountain Hughes from Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Laura Smalley and Fountain …show more content…
Being first to explain what their time as a slave was Mrs. Laura Smalley in an interview in 1941 to John Henry Faulk and an unidentified woman. Mrs. Laura Smalley. She starts off when telling her interviewer how the kids would needed to be taken care of, how they ate and how they were punished along with the caregiver would be punished as well she did not tend to the caregiver (Smalley 1941) . Then goes to tell how there would be a woman that would nurse the babies when hungry or sick at any time of day and throughout the night if she must . Shows just a bit of a difference that a role most women would have and how a caregiver was treated when a slave rather then if a caregiver was not a slave or an actual white mother.