This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... to find the work moving very fast during the hot summer mornings. The slaves had nothing to gain by working hard. They let their hoes fall in a listless manner and wasted much time turning the corners. At noon, dinner was brought to the field and usually two hours were allowed for rest, unless it was the busy season. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... to find the work moving very fast during the hot summer mornings. The slaves had nothing to gain by working hard. They let their hoes fall in a listless manner and wasted much time turning the corners. At noon, dinner was brought to the field and usually two hours were allowed for rest, unless it was the busy season. After the nooning the work continued until sunset. The slaves might then go to their cabins and cook their suppers. Each cabin had a fireplace where a huge fire that gleamed through the cracks between the logs of the cabin walls was soon burning. Each slave had for rations a peck of meal and three or four pounds of meat, generally bacon, each week. A little salt and sugar were added to this, and sometimes molasses. One suit of clothes (shirt and pantaloons) for winter and two for summer were given to each man. Every negro family had a small patch of ground about its cabin in which to raise vegetables, and there was a chicken yard also. Often the slaves were allowed to sell vegetables, eggs, and chickens, and thus to earn money for themselves. This might be spent for fineries, or in some cases it went for liquor. On Saturday, for either whole or part of the day, the slaves were released from field work and might work for themselves. In many cases they used this time and Sundays in which to earn money for themselves by hiring out and doing odd jobs. There were many instances in which slaves purchased their freedom and that of their families with money earned in this way. The amount of work done in a day by the slaves is generally thought to have been about one-half that done by hired white laborers. But much depended upon the overseer of the plantation. If he was paid a salary, he might be easy with the slaves, in order to avoid trouble and to p...
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