What was the role of african women slaves? - slaves of women
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What are the roles of African slaves in the plantations of the women?
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Slaves Of Women What Was The Role Of African Women Slaves?
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Most of the women slaves in the fields alongside the men (the previous comment because they do not it is the heavy field work correctly). even if they return the same work as men, after the completion of the work is in their cabins and make dinner, clean, wash, etc.
"Women like men plow," recalls the former slave Henry Baker. "On Wednesday evening, had to wash and wash, after preparing for the dinner. The next morning the men got up and had breakfast, before they make on the floor and had to cook lunch at the same time, taking with them."
In addition to the fieldwork, many peasant women, to make a number of cases a quota son or cloth before going to sleep. Comb worked as a group to help children with wool. Bob Ellis, whose mother was a spinner head plantation of Virginia, said that since the slaves worked Othr turned round to check the progress, chanting: "Keep your eyes on the sun to see how it works. Let them you do not catch something the other hand,Work time lost. "The point, Ellis said, was a woman quit before it be dark, because" it was difficult that may be powerful son of cotton by fire. "
Some women work as domestic slaves, but this task was unpopular because the house slaves had no free time, and is always on your finger and expect their employers. even some slave owners were asleep at home, at the foot of her bed incasethey need anything during the night. Angelina Grimke said he knew a black woman who married for eleven years, but never to sleep outside the house of his mistress. "Some houses slaves deliberately so that its functions would not be back working on the fields.
The southern half of the slaves for the small farmers who live in houses a little more impressive than the slave cabins on large plantations worked. Caucasian women in the southern small businesses have worked hard, and when a farmer was wealthy enough to buy a slave, its often the first purchase of a Women's Aidhis wife. "It was sure hard to live," said Mary Lindsay, who was only a slave to the blacksmith of poor whites. "I'm three times, so I had time to feed the horses and pigs in the residues and the chickens and cows have water, then go home and eat breakfast." A former slaves in Nashville, the master said, set a poor working-class family, he had cut a "duty of the nurse, cook, cut into the fields, wood, fetching water, washing, the yen is generally not iron anything." She was six years old was at the time.
Those who have not engaged in domestic service is usually a minor role of agriculture. These include the fight against the tobacco plant, so that the remaining leaves expand, and a stronger hand resulting ratio. In the days before the "King Cotton" is used flax (plain weave).
Slaves were not for heavy agricultural work, such as plowing or mowing used. However, you can) choose plants (including cotton balls, and are often seen in contemporary photographs of civil war that way.
Have sex with men, so that they more slaves.
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