What was slave life in the southern colonies?
Awful- pick cotton or other crop from sun-up to sun-down. Could be sold to another plantation and separated from family and loved ones. Slaves either worked in field, even children, or worked in the house, as servants or caring for children. Slave marriages didn’t count, and slaves had to do everything a master or mistress ordered, including sexual relations. Also, in terms of representation, slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person as of the Missouri Compromise until the 13th Amendment. Even after slaves were freed in the South, most stayed on and worked as sharecroppers on masters’ lands and were paid almost nothing.
