How Did Slavery Changed Over Time

Slavery, from the eighteenth century, has changed drastically to the present time. The main change I have researched is treatment, which is what I am doing my paper over. When slaves were brought to Jamestown the had no knowledge of their own birthday or background. The masters kept it that way, and gave them no sense of knowledge making sure they would stay “dumb”. In parts of the colonies it was made sure that the children were separated from their parents at a young age. Frederick Douglass was at a young age when he watched his aunt get whipped for leaving to see a young man after being told not to. The sight of watching his aunt get whipped and blood going everywhere, he claimed, was horrifyingly memorable. Slaves were treated as though
The masters normally had overseers to watch them and if the overseers did something the master did not like, he would punish the overseer. Some masters we called “kind masters” because they would let the slave do certain things, like, go out to see their children during day light but had to be back on the plantation before dawn the next morning to work. (Source: Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.) The men and women slaves, as their monthly allowance of food, received eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal. Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes. The children unable to work in the field had neither shoes, stockings, jackets, nor trousers, given to them; their clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts per year. When these failed them, they went naked until the next allowance-day. (Source: Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.) Slaveowners frequently discussed the care and feeding of slaves among themselves and within southern agricultural journals. It is clear that deliberations
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