Plantation

Have you ever wondered about how people back then worked? Back then so many things were very different. It wasn’t easy as it is now. People that worked in the 1800 in Hawaii can show that. Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was not easy. Living conditions were harsh, the reason why is because of living situations, racial and gender differences, and labor with working in the fields. Conditions were crowded. Often, two couples would share 10-foot-square room that had a kitchen and a home-made…

The Transatlantic Slave Trade has affected the lives of many people in a way many thought to be beneficial but destroyed the lives of many at the same time. African Americans were being transported to different countries to be sold and to work on plantations for the benefits of salve owners. Many stories and accounts depict the ways slaves were treated. A good depiction of how the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade was fought against was the case of Amistad and the movie made about it. After…

world focusing on the urban industrial development. As the South’s climate was warm and humid, this became great for the commercial crops that were profitable, such as tobacco, cotton, indigo, and sugar cranes. The cash crops ended up turning the plantations into a system that was ran on large commercial agriculture and its dependence on enslaved labor. A lot of the white individuals that were located within the South were not slave owners, however they supported “peculiar institution”, which…

against the plantation owners and the southern society. These actions showed people how slaves did not approve of the way of life, nor did they appreciate the living conditions. After slaves began to revolt, the southern societies began to pass stricter laws and limits on the slave population with the notion it would put more control over the rebelling population. Herbert Aptheker explained that the slave population compared…

faithful slaves would mean giving up their life’s work of business. If the South no longer did business with the North then the South would cease to thrive off of agricultural productions. In 1850, a slave would be worth about two hundred dollars. If a plantation owner were to lose roughly two hundred of his slaves that would be equivalent to the loss of four hundred thousand dollars. The South made it clear that once slaves were released that would then cause unemployment. The North especially…

The Middle Passage was a treacherous voyage for Africans headed toward their fate as slaves across the Atlantic Ocean. A journal kept by a crew member aboard the Dutch slaver, St. Jan, describes the voyage and the plight of the slaves in 1659. During the Dutch slavers first listed stop, the crew purchased tamarinds for their unwilling passengers. The purchase of the fruit suggests a concern over scurvy. Scurvy, a disease common among sailors and slaves while at sea, was fatal and could be…

Some women who worked as cooks would poison the food they prepared for their masters, others would simply runaway. Some women were even more deliberate and would kill their masters, set parts of the plantation on fire or resist whippings (White, 77-78). Sexual exploitation of women slaves by their masters was unfortunately common, and some women resisted with brute force. Rape of a slave woman was not considered a crime, so women had two choices, to fight…

we primarily look through the eyes of Vyry, but we also look through other characters as well. Some of the characters who play an important role throughout Jubilee include: Marster John, the master of the plantation Vyry is born and raised on; Grimes, the overseer of Marster John’s plantation; Big Missy, commonly known as Salina and is Marster John’s wife; Vyry, the main character of the book; and Randall Ware, a former slave who works as a blacksmith and becomes Vyry’s first…

claim bounty on criminals hiding at the plantation. There were no criminals hiding at the plantation. Candie’s men gave Django a gun. Django killed all of them, stole a horse, and reclaimed his wife. Django showed his loyalty to his wife as he would have died before he would have left her. This is an example of African Americans being fiercely loyal to their families. At the very end you see Django and Broomhilda sitting on a horse watching the plantation house blow up from the bomb he set. As…

Ms. Louisa was a married slave; her husband was a slave as well that belonged to another plantation owned by the Sloans. As she stated in her interview they didn’t get to see each other as much, and when they did they had to have passes from their masters.When talking about slavery in History classes, we never really get to hear about the opportunities some slaves were allowed to have. On many plantations slaves weren’t treated as poorly, such as the one Ms. Davis worked on. Louisa stated that…