Colonial America Research Paper

Imagine sweat dripping off your face, every muscle in your body is aching and begging you to stop, but you can’t your master will beat you if you do. This is the work of a slave during Colonial America. The life of a slave was a difficult one from being taken from your home country, to enduring long hours of painful work until thankfully, it was halted to a stop during the civil war.You’re in Africa with your family you are doing your daily duties when you and your village hear noise. There are men that appear to be coming your way. There is something over your head and you cannot see. It seems you’re being forced down to the bottom deck of a ship. You are able to see again but, you don’t see your family. What you do see, however, are people from your

However, on the long journey to America there was much death. This was because of disease which spread quickly from person to person. 25-30 million Africans were kidnapped and sold at an auction. Can you imagine what it must have felt like to be taken from your home to work as a slave? After all the slaves were sold at the auctions to the plantation owners they were assigned different jobs on the plantation. For example, if a slave was to be a house slave they would do duties such as cooking, cleaning and working around the house of the plantation owner. They also took care of the owner and his family. Being a house slave meant that you were very close to the family, however, this meant you had much less privacy and worked all seven days of the week. On the other hand, were clothed better, fed better and treated better than the next type of slave the field slave. This type of slave worked eighteen hours a week on the field of the plantation working with crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo. These crops are called cash crops or a crop grown on a farm or plantation to be