urgent! About Slavery. Have to return the project tommorow.?

Question

I have a project work on slaves. I know how were the slaves ill-treated and how they were beaten. But my project is a bit different. i must write on a day of a slave. For example: What he does when he wakes up in the morning. How he starts his journey. At noon what he eats. What work he does after his break. U get it? I must write how he/she normally spends his day. It can be for any slave. Then, could u please help? U could send me links. Or write an essay for me. Please help me. I have to return the project tommorow.

Answer 1

There were many different slave lives. They were in the most menial of tasks to highly professional jobs. Your comment about knowing how they were “ill-treated” and “beaten” demonstrates a stereo-type image of them which is less than accurate. Clearly, some were ill-treated and beaten, but you must remember they were also highly valuable property and as such treating them that way would be detrimental to that value. You might delve into a separate subject which is that the4 slave’s existence was one of not owning self which is far more detrimental that ill treatment.

The link takes you to slave stories from the slaves them selves. It will take you time to go through them and develop an honest report that you have describe. For someone to do it for you is not in your best interests.

Finally you are in the wrong section to ask for help in your homework.

Answer 2

The life of a slave was a harsh one, nothing to write home about. If they were working in the fields or inhouse could make a big difference in how they would be treated.
Also what country, I come from Brazil, and there are differences in how those people lived depending on what type of work, if men or women, or child. Some women would be 'black mamas' and their job was to breastfeed the white babies. Slaves were a product not a human being, so imagine how you treat your pencil, you make sure that it is in very good condition when you buy it, then you will sharpen when necessary and when you can not use it anymore you throw away. That's very much how slaves were treated. Imagine also, an agricultural worker today will have all the tech help for work, but slaves were not paid, poorly fed, did the hard yakka.
Good Luck.

Answer 3

I imagine that the project is to make you think about what the life would have been like rather than just handing an essay in. What you learn will be more important that what mark you get.

Why don't you read up a little on Wikipedia (see link), choose where and when your slave was and make up a story.

Think of things like:
Where did you come from?
How old are you?
Do you remember your homeland?
Do you remember your parents?
What would your duties be?
What is your owner like?
Does he treat you well or badly?

Think of a fgew more questions like this and decide what the answers could be, than write a story as if you are the slave. Do the best you can and you will find that marks are less important than learning.

Answer 4

all in all what you will be writing is about the owner of the slaves because slaves can't just decide for themselves what they can eat, do, or how to spend their day because they are not free to do that. that's what slaves are.

why don't you act like a slave for an hour. ask someone to be your master so that at least you'll have a feel on how it is to be one.

and you should do your own essay

Answer 5

Get a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin immediately. And read it. Then you will know. The U.S. has many contemporary stories about slaves and slavery but they are fake. In fact that garbage that Toni Morrison rights is extremely poor.

Answer 6

Slaves were not routinely beaten or starved. That was a myth given credence by "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written by a white abolitionist as propaganda.