A regular working day in the fields for a slave was from sunrise to sunset. From a slaves point of view it was when you could see the ... What was family life like for slaves in the Colonies?

Slaves’ lives didn’t matter to anyone. An owner of a slave could do anything to them. ... On the day of the revolt, ... Gates, Henry Louis Jr. African American Voices of Triumph. Alexandria: Time Life Books, 1993.

Slavery was a harsh reality in 18th-century America. Before the American Revolution, slavery was legal in all the British American colonies. There were no northern abolitionists,

Most slaves had to work from sunrise to sunset. Some owners made their slaves work every day, others allowed slaves one day a month off and some allowed their slaves to have Sundays as a rest-day. 

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*A work day consisted of 15-16 hours a day, ... He maintained the element of slave misery, ... Life expectancy for Southerners was lower than Northerners and life expectancy of slaves was lower than whites.

        The every-day life of a slave on one of our southern plantations, however frequently it may have been described, is generally little known at the North;

Imagine you are a slave. By 1865, with the end of the war and the defeat of the Confederacy, you will be free. ... You lived in the slave quarters located some distance from the main house,

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The slave narratives reveal the day-to-day life of the slaves, their values, ideas hopes, aspirations and fears.