The lives of slaves in the book, Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, differed between living in plantations, small farms, and cities. The book was based on a slave named Isabel and her life during the Revolutionary War. She lived on a plantation, a farm, and a house in the city of New York. Plantations, farms, and cities had different habitats and jobs for slaves. One of these lifestyles were easier on slaves while one of the others were very, very difficult. There were three main differences between the lives of slaves in plantations, small farms, and in cities. The number of slaves, where the types of slave lifestyles were commonly located, and the way their masters treated them and cared for them, if they even cared for them at all.
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“By studying the skeletons, scientists discovered that the slaves of New York suffered from poor nutrition, disease, and years of backbreaking work” (pg. 308). In other words, slave owners in plantations pretty much treated their slaves like work mules. Worked and worked, even though illnesses, most likely little food, and gotten rid of after they couldn't help anymore or if they refused to. The next slave lifestyle I will introduce is, what I think, the slaves who had the highest quality of life which are slaves who worked on small farms. Usually there were only around twenty to thirty slaves on each small farm and were typically located in Rhode Island or Connecticut. Isabel and her family were sold from a plantation to a farm, their second place where they lived. There isn't a lot of evidence about how Isabel’s life was on the farm, or how she was treated there, but there was some. Slaves on small farms would live and work on the farm. When Isabel lived on one, she had her own belongings that were hers until her owner died, then nothing belonged to her. “The morning mist twisted and hung low over the field. No ghosts yet, just ash trees and maples lined up in a
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“By studying the skeletons, scientists discovered that the slaves of New York suffered from poor nutrition, disease, and years of backbreaking work” (pg. 308). In other words, slave owners in plantations pretty much treated their slaves like work mules. Worked and worked, even though illnesses, most likely little food, and gotten rid of after they couldn't help anymore or if they refused to. The next slave lifestyle I will introduce is, what I think, the slaves who had the highest quality of life which are slaves who worked on small farms. Usually there were only around twenty to thirty slaves on each small farm and were typically located in Rhode Island or Connecticut. Isabel and her family were sold from a plantation to a farm, their second place where they lived. There isn't a lot of evidence about how Isabel’s life was on the farm, or how she was treated there, but there was some. Slaves on small farms would live and work on the farm. When Isabel lived on one, she had her own belongings that were hers until her owner died, then nothing belonged to her. “The morning mist twisted and hung low over the field. No ghosts yet, just ash trees and maples lined up in a