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I would stay with my slaveholder because if I tried to runaway and wasn't successful he could torture me and leave me to die a slow death or he could make me work harder than I already was. -Sam

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Response to "Question # 2" -Madison Reeves 

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Response to "Question # 2" -Madison Reeves 

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Slaves also turned to sharecropping, despite the unequal sharing of profit.

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I agree with you. They should spend more time on getting an education before going to make a life outside the plantation. Also, their owners provide them with what they need so leaving would leave more struggle for them.  -Tyler

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I do agree with that answer, but there were other jobs like church ministers and other stuff. The majority just continued to work for the share.

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Response to "Answer to question #1"- Morgan Pace 

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Response to "Answer to question #1"- Morgan Pace 

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I agree with that answer, I wouldn't want to leave from the comfort of a home I had known my whole life. Especially after I had seen how some people treated the African Americans like they where criminals when they weren't on the plantaion

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I think that I would stay with my slaveholder because I wouldnt know how to do anything else excet farm. I think you should learn how to read and wirte before you go out and try to make a new life for yourself.

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They didn't get whipped as much as they used to and some actually got paid.

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A lot worked on shares after the war, because farming was all they had known.

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- Cauthier, Sheldon F., Interviewer. "Andy J. Anderson Interview." New Deal Network, n.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2017.

-Taylor, Samuel S., Interviewer. "American Slave Narratives." Been Here So Long. New Deal Network, n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2017.

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Question 1- If you were a slave during this time, would you stay with your slaveholder or runaway? Why?

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Question 1- If you were a slave during this time, would you stay with your slaveholder or runaway? Why?

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Question 2- Were there more jobs for slaves than working in a field? If so, name a couple. 

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Question 2- Were there more jobs for slaves than working in a field? If so, name a couple. 

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Response- Textile and Steel industries grew after the Civil War, and some African Americans were employed in those businesses

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Question 3- What kind of punishments did slaves receive if they tried to run away?

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Question 3- What kind of punishments did slaves receive if they tried to run away?

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Question 4-  Although slaves still farmed after the war, what was the difference between pre-war and post-war farming? 

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Question 4-  Although slaves still farmed after the war, what was the difference between pre-war and post-war farming? 

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Abraham Lincoln- Emancipation Proclomation

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Main house on plantation, where white owners and masters lived.

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Matilda Hatchett

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Andy J. Anderson

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Slaves working in fields tending the crop.

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After the Civil War, some freed slaves worked on shares,  a form of agriculture where a landowner allows residents to farm  land in return for a share of a harvest or profit.  Isom Mosby shared "And when they found out they was free, they worked on shares, they tell me. Worked on shares, didn't rent no land, they worked on shares...they got the third, I think they say, what they made,??? after surrender" (Mosby, paragraph 16). Yes, slaves had been legally freed, yes they could farm their own land, but no, they could not keep full profits or benefits from their work. Matilda Hatchett also said, "After the War, my father farmed. He worked on shares"  (Hatchett, paragraph 36). Because farming was what they had known, many slaves turned to the sharecropping method, despite the unequal sharing of profit.

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Before the Civil War, former slaves worked on plantations or for wealthy white families, doing as the families please. At times, families asked slaves to do odd jobs. A plantation, described by former slave Andy J. Anderson, was "kind of like a small town" (Anderson,  paragraph 6). Within these "small towns," there would be people such as shoemakers, those who harvest, and those who tended to animals. Matilda Hatchett, another former slave, talked of her family working primarily on the farm aspect of the plantation. "They raised cows, hogs, horses, turkeys, chickens, and everything else...they ran a cotton gin and my father managed it. That was his job all the time before the War" (Hatchett, paragraphs 34 and 35).

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During the Civil War, many slaves fled from their owners as soon as they could. Former slave, Andy J. Anderson describes the punishment for running away, saying, "We colored folks on Master's place are not used to such treatment an' some run off. W'en they are catched, they're a whppin' at de stake. There are a couple ob de runaways dat are never catched." Many other slaves could not leave or would not leave without their family members in the war. A few slaves stayed loyal to their slaveholders, defending them and their land from Yankee raiders, while simultaneously yearning for a Union victory. These war days for working slaves commenced slowly, as they continued their usual daily farming duties. Most of these duties consisted of harvesting specific crops and raising animals. The Civil War lasted until 1865. Slaves were still under their slaveholders' custody up until this point, but wouldn't be much longer. African-Americans were starting to see the gleaming light of freedom, thanks to Abraham Lincoln, who had been working on a document to help emancipate these people from their shackles of slavery called The Emancipation Proclamation.