SLAVE LIFE ON SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS!

WHY WERE SLAVES NEEDED ON SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS?

• So they work on the plantations ("PBS")
• The slaves worked for free("Plantation Life")

SLAVES TREATED BY MASTERS?

• Slaves had no beds they only had blankets ("Plantation Life")
• If slaves would complain about the overseer, slaveholder would fire them
• ("Slave life and slave codes")
• Domestic Slavs received better food, and sometimes were able to travel
• ("Slave life and slave codes")

What were their living conditions like on the plantation?

• lived in quarters outside, very easy to get sick ("PBS")
• Sometimes had furniture ("Slave life and Slave codes")
• The worst condition that they had to live with was the threat of being sold
• ("PBS")
• The slaveholder may be nice but something financially could go wrong

DIFFERENT JOBS ON PLATATIONS

• Men worked on fields and gardens ("Plantation Life")
• Women worked inside the house as cooks, housemaids, and servants("PBS")
• Slaves who worked as domestic sometimes lived better getting
• Clothing from their masters ("Slave Life and Slave Codes")
• Enslaved people worked as mechanics, blacksmiths, and drivers("PBS")

DRAWBACKS OF EACH JOB

• Women starved at times and got hit and even raped ("Plantation Life")
• When the slaves weren't working fast enough they would get whipped
• ("Slave Life and Slave Codes")

How will this topic become part of copper sun?

• This will become of copper sun because so many slaves lived
• a cruel life as slaves and so will the characters in the book.