¿COMO ERA la VIDA de un ESCLAVO en la ÉPOCA COLONIAL? — Transcript

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1. 0:09Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were taken off the mainland
2. 0:14African and forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited
3. 0:18to work as servants and toil in the production of crops such as
4. 0:22tobacco and cotton, the coast of the slaves was the main area of
5. 0:26slave trade in africa each of the major trading nations
6. 0:30of slaves would maintain warehouses where captured slaves were kept
7. 0:34prisoners until a ship arrived to cross the ocean these are
8. 0:38would buy from African merchants of slaves or simply captured
9. 0:42there, the conditions in the course of the trip to America were terrible to
10. 0:46times half of them will starve or dehydration sometimes
11. 0:49merchants threw those who were sick overboard because your insurance
12. 0:54would pay for the slaves lost in the sea ​​but if they were brought to land alive
13. 0:57would sell them for less than the cost of transport them, a British court
14. 1:01agreed that it was a practice perfectly legal and acceptable.
15. 1:06Slaves were often sold to through newspaper ads in
16. 1:10other times they would be inspected d and put up for auctions on sites created with
17. 1:15this end and the highest bidder will would carry, once they were bought
18. 1:18became their own absolute buyer were assigned to any
19. 1:22work decided by its owner, many they worked in the field while
20. 1:25others worked as servants domestic or were trained in
21. 1:29skilled professions, in the decade of 1770 there were probably around
22. 1:35350 thousand African slaves in the American colonies about three
23. 1:41rooms of which were in the South Virginia Colonies
24. 1:44carolinas and georgia.
25. 1:48In Virginia these Africans lived and they worked in plantations or small
26. 1:52farms where tobacco was the crop mainly those who lived on farms more
27. 1:55little girls often lived in a kitchen or another outbuilding or in rustic cabins
28. 2:00near the farmer's house in the large tobacco plantations
29. 2:03field slaves used to live in that clustered cabins in the neighborhood of
30. 2:07slaves that was further from the house of the I love but under the watchful eye of a
31. 2:11foreman, although large plantations had many people enslaved the
32. 2:15most owners used to have less than five including children,
33. 2:21as a general rule people enslaved they worked from the
34. 2:24sunrise to sunset usually in the tobacco fields upon reaching the
35. 2:28I work at dawn the slaves only stopped to rest and eat during
36. 2:32breakfast and lunch after who worked until nightfall,
37. 2:36during harvest time the slaves worked shifts of up to
38. 2:4018 hours a day in the big plantations some learned trades
39. 2:44and they worked as blacksmiths, carpenters and coopers or as cooks and
40. 2:49servants those who were skillful and experienced in agriculture were a
41. 2:53often decision makers important in plantations when
42. 2:56the cane was ready to harvest when the sugar juices were
43. 3:00ready or when tobacco leaves were ideal for collecting, at the end of the
44. 3:04workday and Sundays and Christmas most people enslaved
45. 3:09they had a few hours to attend their personal needs often passed
46. 3:13in this time making their own chores or working on your
47. 3:17own gardens, when they could they passed afternoons and limited free time
48. 3:22visiting friends or family who they could live close by telling stories
49. 3:27singing and dancing many of these activities
50. 3:29combined African traditions relatives with British customs
51. 3:33learned in the new world some of the dances of the slaves were
52. 3:37similar to tribal dances African women and their songs often
53. 3:41they told stories about how their masters they treated them and the injustices of the
54. 3:45slavery.
55. 3:49As slavery spread in the south many states approved
56. 3:53slave codes that described the slave rights and treatment and
57. 3:57the acceptable rules regarding them, the slave codes varied from
58. 4:02interstate but there were many threads common
59. 4:05you couldn't do business with a slave without the prior consent of the
60. 4:08owner, slaves could be awarded as prizes in raffles
61. 4:12wagered on offered games of chance as collateral for loans and
62. 4:16transferred as gifts from a person to another, a slave is not
63. 4:20allowed to have a weapon if it was the slave caught carrying a weapon
64. 4:24received 39 lashes were also considered incompetent as witnesses
65. 4:29in legal cases involving whites, education was forbidden
66. 4:33anyone who runs a school or teaches anyone to read and write
67. 4:37African American in Missouri could be punishable by a fine of not less than
68. 4:42$ 500 and up to six months in jail, slaves could not reunite without
69. 4:47presence of a white person, marriages between slaves I do not know
70. 4:51considered legally binding by therefore the owners had the
71. 4:55freedom to divide families through sale, any
72. 4:58slave found guilty of arson Willful abuse of a white woman or
73. 5:03conspiracy to rebel was executed.
74. 5:07The slaves of the plantations will work how and when
75. 5:11their owners and supervisors will dictate it in their treatment largely depended on
76. 5:15those responsible however the aspect most brutal of their lives was not so much the
77. 5:19personal abuse but the system itself the whip both its image and its sound
78. 5:24is perhaps the most common memory of the plantation slavery
79. 5:28normally that punishment was used to force them to work but the whip
80. 5:32it was also used for a variety of crimes, but slavery in the
81. 5:36plantations did not work simply because threats or violence the slaves
82. 5:40they were also cajoled and persuaded for them to work they were given
83. 5:43small incentives, food additional clothing time off from work
84. 5:48hoping that they could work effectively they are also
85. 5:51gave land to grow food or raise animals for your own use however
86. 5:56violence was the greatest threat and the lubricant of the entire system, not less
87. 6:01common and brutal were the abuse of that women were exposed
88. 6:04they were always prey to habits depraved of their masters men
89. 6:08targets responsible for those assaults paid little or no attention to
90. 6:12woman herself, her age, your husband or your family as it was from
91. 6:16waiting was a cause of deep pain and humiliation
92. 6:19was also often the cause of a latent resentment of revenge.
93. 6:25When the enslaved children began to work on the plantation were
94. 6:29used to help workers older and as they grew
95. 6:33became experienced substitutes of these that is why an African child
96. 6:38strong and healthy was so desired by slaveholders, slavery forced the
97. 6:42children to grow quickly and perform works for adults girls
98. 6:46They worked on farms since the age of 4 the occupations of girls aged 12
99. 6:51and 19 years ranged from the job of field and cattle up to tasks
100. 6:55between 1820 and 1860 the number of slaves under 20 years old exceeded
101. 7:01those over 20, when children enslaved reached the age of 5 or 6
102. 7:06years faced harsh consequences for any misconduct when they already had
103. 7:10more than 10 years were not excused by their shortcomings or mistakes they made.
104. 7:18Although the plantations were designed to work quickly
105. 7:22became critical places for family and social life of people
106. 7:26enslaved some came to a plantation in the company of fellow
107. 7:30ship or with Africans from your home region in africa but they didn't come there like
108. 7:35families however in a very short time the enslaved created new
109. 7:39family relationships were established in family units creating
110. 7:42descendants in their own homes by very basic that these homes are
111. 7:47became the focal point for create new generations born in the
112. 7:51slavery who were taught the dangers and risks of life in a
113. 7:55plantation and in the world in general, the slave family was the beginning of
114. 7:59from which the culture developed slave owner whenever someone knows
115. 8:03escaped often had consequences for their relatives that is why they
116. 8:07they thought before doing it. Every job position brought with it
117. 8:13your own set of dangerous demands and benefits related not only to
118. 8:17workmanship but also with quality of food, clothing and housing
119. 8:21received, every Saturday distributed food rations
120. 8:25weekly usually cornmeal, lard, some meat, molasses
121. 8:30peas and vegetables, the meals of the tomorrow they prepared in the evening and
122. 8:35consumed at dawn in the cabins of the slaves, the rest of the meals of the
123. 8:39day they were usually prepared in a central kitchen by an old man or a
124. 8:43woman who was no longer capable of performing a hard work in the field this had
125. 8:47place at noon or whenever field slaves have a rest
126. 8:51work, at the end of the day the wife or the mother prepared a kind of dinner
127. 8:56family in individual cabins the diets high in fat and starch were not
128. 9:00nutritionally adequate and could cause ailments such as rickets,
129. 9:05clothes were distributed by the owner usually once a year and often
130. 9:09at Christmas' it was distributed according to sex and age as well as job
131. 9:14performed by its bearer the slaves elderly who could not do work
132. 9:17physical did not receive shoes or additional layers of clothing during
133. 9:21winter than farm workers younger, while many
134. 9:25field workers are not provided enough clothing to cover
135. 9:29their bodies the domestic slaves tended to dress more modestly
136. 9:33sometimes with clothes inherited from their both. Africa inevitably dominated the form
137. 9:40in which the slaves behaved and what they believed, their beliefs and religions were
138. 9:44derived from there although they were often modified by life in the americas
139. 9:48some practices such as voodoo, myalism and others arose in this way
140. 9:52but the slave owners and the colonial powers rarely accepted
141. 9:55such beliefs as genuine religions also the slave religions had
142. 10:00a secular and temporary role devotions and prayers for a better
143. 10:05health, for safety by wishing the other good or bad arose from
144. 10:09your own belief systems.