Slaves

By: Alexa De Los Santos

(in the shoes of a slave)

Back Then People were wiped for stuff that was not right. Until one day there was this big change a slave
named Harriet Tubman. She helped all slaves escape. But then we had a GOOD president his name is
Abraham Lincoln. He saved more than 1000 peoples live. Him and his wife abolished slavery they thought it
was wrong. I escape and My name is Henry. I was called Henry Box Brown, Because I had to be in a box to
get to freedom in Pennsylvania. Slaves were Black People. Most infants were weaned within three or four
months

There were few instances in which slave women were released from field work for extended periods during
slavery. Even during the last week before childbirth, pregnant women on average picked three-quarters or
more of the amount normal for women.

Half of all slave babies died in the first year of life--twice the rate for white babies.

The average birth weight of slave infants was less than 5.5 pounds.

Slave children were tiny; their average height did not reach three feet until they were 4; they were 5.5 inches
shorter than modern children and comparable to children in Bangladesh and the slums of Lagos.

At 17, slave men were shorter than 96 percent of men today and slave women shorter than 80 percent of
contemporary women.

Slaves did not reach their full stature--67 inches for men and 62.5 inches for women--until their mid-20s.

Children entered the labor force as early as 3 or 4. Some were taken into the master's house to be servants
while others were assigned to special children's gangs called "trash gangs," which swept yards, cleared
drying cornstalks from fields, chopped cotton, carried water to field hands, weeded, picked cotton, fed work
animals, and drove cows to pasture.

By age 7, over 40 percent of the boys and half the girls had entered the workforce. At about 11, boys began to
transfer to adult field jobs.

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Questions

1. In Whose Point of view was it in?

A) Harriet Tubman
B) A slave
C) Henry Boxy Browny
D) Henry Box Brown

2. Who Died in the 1st year of life?

A) Adults
B) Children
C) Babies
D) Slaves

3. How Much Did Babies Weight?

A) less than 5.5 pounds
B) Nothing Because they died
C) 5 pounds
D) 10 pounds

4. True/False- Mothers Got A week of break before a childbirth

1. True
2. False

5. How old did you start working in the fields?

A) 3
B) 7
C) 4
D) Both A and C

6. True/False- Harriet Tubman Discovered the underground railroad

1. True
2. False

7. Who Abolished Slavery?

A) The Lincolns
B) The President of United Kingdom
C) Slaves
D) None Of the Above

8. True/False- Henry Box Brown Was Put In A Train

1. True
2. False

9. At About What Age Does the Boy Had To Go To Field Work?

A) 13
B) 16
C) 7
D) 11

10. True/False- Harriet Was Sent To pennsylvania

1. True
2. False







Teacher Stuff

The Answer Are:

1 D
2 C
3 A
4 1
5 D
6 1
7 A
8 2
9 D
10 2

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