AMH 2010 Chapter Notes -Dementia, Cornmeal, Underground Railroad

• School: University of Florida
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMH 2010
• Professor: Jeffrey Adler

Document Summary

Life as a slave v. slavery as an institution. Not beaten as much as we thought. Fear was a big player in the institution. Immigrants and slaves shared very similar livelihoods, except of course for the aspect of freedom. Sick slave, call the doctor immediately: slaves were an investment, a dead investment isn"t helpful. Think on indentured servants from before no one cared about them because they had contracts. Slave owners encouraged the idea of families among slaves: helped to keep slaves grounded. Slave families weren"t split up like much of the assumption made throughout time: in actuality slave family members honestly just lived down the road from each other. Frederick douglass was a lucky slave: he lived in an urban environment (baltimore, giving him access to a lot of amenities. A slave hid in the attic for 7 years. We only ever focus on educated slaves because they"re the only people who wrote anything down.