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"Before the Civil War, nearly 4 million black slaves toiled in the American South. Modem scholars have assembled a great deal of evidence showing that few slaves accepted their lack of freedom or enjoyed life on the plantation." -Constitutional Rights Foundation

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http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/asn13.htm#4
https://www.brainyquote.com/search_results.html?q=slave+family
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3042
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/aafamilies.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/family/history.html
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Family_Life_During_the_Civil_War

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"Still her sympathy and love for me was as great as any woman ever bore in her bosom for a son. I can remember on one occasion when I was quite small my heels were chapped. In those days, Negro boys were not allowed to wear shoes until 12 or 14 years of age. When I would walk early in the morning or late in the evening, blood that would ooze from the cracks in my feet, would mark my tracks." -Scott Bond

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"I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave." -Lee Daniels

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1. How would you feel if your family got separated?
2. Would you try to find your family members if you were separated?
3. How many children did the average slave family have?
4. If you were in their situation what would you do?

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After slavery, African Americans turned to schools, churches, and family for centerpieces. Some even after slavery took the opportunities and rights of being a citizen to their benefits. Seven hundred African American men served in elected public office after Reconstruction and some even in the United States House of Representatives. But even after the end of slavery and reconstruction the KKK terrorized African American leaders and citizens in 1871, in the South.

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A slave family that has found each other after being separated for a few years.

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After the Civil War, African Americans didn't have ideal living conditions.

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This is a photograph of a group of former slaves.

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Family portraits of slaves weren't generally seen at all in the 1800's and were definitely never seen before the civil war ended.

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Black families found in the war a chance to bring their families back together after years of separation. Enslaved men had been involuntarily sold away from their families through the domestic slave trade, either to nearby plantations or, in many cases, to states in the South. In the civil war, some African Americans were able to fight.

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Families sticking together actually helped owners to keep slavery in place. Owners thought among themselves the benefits of enslaved people making families. Many of them reasoned that having families made it much less likely that a man or woman would run away.  Families were often separated through trade or when they were moved from plantations. Africans were taken from their homes and forced into slavery.  They were separated from mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers and they were torn from their family ties.

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Before, during and after the civil war.