Life on Plantations- Living Conditions by Elese https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s Living Conditions en-us 2018-03-10 01:42:29 UTC 2025-11-21 17:52:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Living Conditions egallen574 https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/240641818 Use your worksheets as well as online research to compile study notes on the punishments that slaves received on plantations]]> 2018-03-11 22:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/240641818 Food https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242619560 Food for slaves was limited. The rations for food slaves were very slim and there was not much variety to eat. One peck of corn or meal was given for each slave. 

sometimes they were given pots and pans for cooking, but more often they had to make their own. The long hours they had to work in the fields meant that they had little free time for making things to improve their living conditions. Some slaves used a hollowed out pumpkin shell called a calabash, to cook their food in.

Most plantation owners did not spend more money on food for their slaves than they had to and so the slaves lived on a diet of fatty meat and cornbread.

The plantation owners provided their enslaved Africans with weekly rations of salt herrings or mackerel, sweet potatoes, and maize, and sometimes salted West Indian turtle. The enslaved Africans supplemented their diet with other kinds of wild food.
]]> 2018-03-15 22:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242619560 Clothing https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242620032 Slaves were given very little in clothing and these clothes were often and were very basic as for example from Fredrick Douglas  how was a slave said that slaves were given  a pair of stockings with a pair of shoes, two pairs of course linen shirts as well as a pair of trousers and a jacket for winter.]]> 2018-03-15 22:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242620032 Free time https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242620944 Overall, slaves had very little free time to do what they want. Most slaves had to work from sunrise to sunset. Some owners made their slaves work every day, others allowed slaves one day a month off and some allowed their slaves to have Sundays as a rest-day. Slaves would spend their free time mending their huts, making pots and pans and relaxing. Some plantation owners allowed their slaves a small plot of land to grow things to supplement their diet. Slaves were not allowed to read or write, but some were allowed to go to church.]]> 2018-03-15 22:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242620944 https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242621169 2018-03-15 22:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242621169 Housing https://padlet.com/egallen574/czif3yi5ge0s/wish/242622416  
The accommodation provided for slaves usually consisted of wooden shacks with dirt floors. According to Jacob Stroyer. "They were built to house two families: "Some had partitions, while others had none. When there were no partitions each family would fit up its own part as it sometimes they got old boards and nailed them up, stuffing the cracks with rags; when they could not get boards they hung up old clothes." 
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