Sunday 3 March 2013

BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : TIME LINE IMAGES OF THE PLANTATION SLAVES LIFE : FIELD HANDS AND HOUSE SERVANTS:

One of the real hardship of working in a plantation in the deep South in days gone by is the real hard labor of dawn to dusk field work, were a slave would get out of his bed and commence work in a cotton, tobacco, rice field for a full day without pay and possible been treated harshly on top of all that. Its stand to reason now that the life span of a slave is so short when you consider that they were worked to death and easily replaced with new slaves coming in all the time to replace the dead, ill and dieing with limited cost to the rich plantation owners.





























These slaves will finish work in the evening, then go home to cook, clean, wash what little clothes they have, eat what little food they have and then do a bit of work for the owner on the spinning wheel to make cotton thread. Life was not a bed of bed of roses for the Slaves in the plantations of Miseries all along the Deep South Coast states. Two hundred years later I still weep for the hardship that these unjust that was visited upon our brothers who happen to have been sold by there own African Brothers for cheap rubbish. I ask my self " Is a man Life only worth a few Rubbish Manufactured in Europe " ?????

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