Slavery

Slavery

1. Slave Auction

   • Noisy
   • Confined
   • Friends separated
   • Rushed
   • Families were often split
   • People could buy of let slaves
   • People who were split up would never see each other again
   • Slaves would have been washed with water and scrubbed with oil

2. Punishments

   • Treadmill
   • Fitted with muzzles
   • Thrown overboard
   • Cant eat or drink
   • Branded with initials
   • ILL slaves were held in a boiling tube 3/4 of an hour
   • Neck ring worn 24hrs a day

3. Opposition

   • Torn from families
   • Revolts
   • Misery
   • In 1792 a British Priminister spoke against it
   • 70,000 - 80,000 people were taken away yearly

4. Working day on plantation

   • Worked from 8:15am - noon
   • Ate breakfast from 8am - 8:15am
   • In harvest season they worked through the night
   • 2hrs to rest and have dinner
   • Anyone late for breakfast was whipped
   • Worked from 2pm - 6pm
   • 6pm return to huts
   • Sleep from 6pm - 5:30am
   • 5:30am - 8:15am work

5. Conditions on the Middle Passage

   • Seasick
   • Filthy floor
   • Death rate was 55%
   • Hands and feet tied together
   • Slaves were packed fellow decks
   • Cramped
   • Terrified
   • Revolts
   • Toilet was a large bucket
   • Suicide
   • Had no room to turn and bruised easily as they were locked together
   • Refused to eat

6. Capture

   • Grief
   • Not fed
   • Some grown slaves kidnapped
   • Tied
   • Seized
   • Robbers carried slaves far away
   • People kidnapped slave children