Life+of+Slaves+in+Colonial+America

This website offers a wide variety of information from the working hours of a slave, to the conditions of slaves.
 * [|Information about the Life of a Slave]**

House slaves lived under better conditions than the field slaves. Their mains jobs would be to cook, clean, serve meals, and to take care of the children. Some of the house slaves would live in the attic, closets, or corners of the big house even though their family would live in the slave quarters. Even though the house slaves had more privileges their lives weren't anymore better than a field workers.
 * Work Lives:** In the time of slavery their were two main kinds of slaves. Field workers and House slaves. Field workers worked from sunrise to sunset. White overseers would drive them all day with a whip. There were consequences for the simplest things such as breaking a piece of the cotton, recieved 20 whip lashes. The life of a field slave was much harder compared to the life of a house slave.


 * Customs and Traditions:**** African American's kept their traditions within cooking, storytelling, and most common with songs. Their songs were based on freedom and salvation and developed into a new type of music called Gospel. Music was a way for the slaves to express themselves freely without the worry of being punished. **