AMH 2097 Exam 2 Robbins Questions & Answers Solved 100% Correct!!

What dominated slaves' life? - Cash crops, 75% were field slaves on plantations What was slaves work? What were the differences in slaves work? - 75% were plantation slaves 25% were: - small farm slaves - City slaves - masters house slaves - Plantation house slaves How were slaves treated? - treated them like property and not people Were the slaves happy, like whites argued? How did they resist? - They were not happy at all Avoided active resistance to not hurt the slave community would do passive instead by "putting one over the master" like slowing down and practicing acculturation Were all African Americans enslaved? How did freedom for African Americans come about? - Some were free, Slaves could escape to the north, buy their freedom, be born from a white mother, their master could free them or be in a family that was never enslaved from the begging How did the Free Blacks in the North and South differ? How were they the same? - They were the same because their status didnt differ, they still had to follow black codes were still black and in the lowest class. different in that the north, free blacks were more common and had different classes. north slaves had to worry about being kidnapped and brought to the south. Southern free blacks were more rare and isolated. there were only lower class in the south.Were Africans/African Americans citizens? Were they given rights? - they were not citizens and not given rights