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On occasion, slaves were forced to build their own houses.

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Slaves were expected to keep their living quarters tidy.

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Slaves would get the bare minimum. They lived in small, simple houses.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/16/slavery-starvation-civil-war

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/living/history2.html

http://quatr.us/northamerica/after1500/people/blacks.htm

http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/slavery-in-the-american-south

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"During de war, food got kind of scarce but didn't nobody suffer none on our place. Lawd yes, we carried de farming right on while de war was gwine on." -Fleming, age 83

http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/asn09.htm#32

The soldiers in the war were using up resources. This left slaves not having much for themselves.

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Sometimes, all the slaves on a plantation would live in one house

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These are the houses that slaves lived in.

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"Witnessed brutal beatings, and tells of working in weather so cold that her hands bled" -Reynolds, age 100

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

During cold, hard winters, some slaves would not be given blankets and would freeze. In this case, the woman's hands bled from being chapped from the cold.

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"He and his family were left with nothing after slavery's end; he and his brother found themselves homeless, sneaking into a white family's livery at night in order to escape the cold" -Hughes, age 101

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

After the war, slaves became homeless. There wasn't a huge difference between living on a farm and living on their own.

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1. Why do you think only a small percent of slaves lived in urban areas?

2. Do you believe all slaves were treated horribly?

3. How much money do you think went into the slaves?

4. How much free time did they get and what did they do during it?

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After the Civil War, although most slaves were freed, the living conditions were still harsh. Many left the plantations that they worked on, and left to find their families and new work. This meant most were homeless and trying to fight their way through life. Since people thought blacks as an unequal, they were treated like one. This caused freed slaves to not find jobs or homes. The living conditions might have been better if they stayed on their plantation instead of being homeless and dying because of diseases.

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In the harsh days of the Civil War, slaves were not allowed to fight in the south until later in the war. They were left to work on the plantations with the remaining harsh conditions they had before. Some slaves even lost the plantations they were working because of Northern raids. The conditions in which they lived got worse. Less food and clothing was given, because of the money the plantation owners had to pay for the war efforts. Hazards during work even increased and injuries were not able to be treated.

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Before the Civil War, slaves depended on their masters for food, clothing, and shelter. Some slave masters tortured slaves daily without explanation. Many slaves were only fed and clothed enough to enable them to do work. Geological location greatly impacted the living conditions of slaves. Slaves who lived in urban areas generally lived in better conditions, however, this only included about six percent of the slaves.