WGS 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paternalism, Eugene Genovese
20 Feb 2017
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Expansion of slavery: 1790- 700,000 slaves this number increased by more than 70% by 1810 and reached nearly 4 million in 1860. Us expansion- growth in population and in geographic. Laws against slaves (especially manumitting slaves- freeing slaves) become more prominent in the us. Slave owners and slave life: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s work. Vast majority of slave women worked in the fields like the men. Small percentage worked in the house as cooks and nannies. Worked with all women (this included pregnant women and women who just had babies) Pregnant women may get only a month off after that they would take the baby in a sling, out to the field with them. About 5,000 women worked in sugar refineries, tobacco plants and cotton mills. Women also had to cook and clean some owners were particular and made sure that they kept quarters clean: paternalism, food and health.
