Life of a slave in the Colonies

Slave owners often used advertisements to invite other landowners to the auction of human cargo and treated their slaves better than indentured servants.

• Using advertisements is true, but treating slaves better is false.

• Using advertisements is false, but treating slaves better is true.

• Both statements are true.

• Both statements are false.

What kinds of jobs did slaves do?

• They recruited other slaves.

• House slaves cooked, cleaned, and took care of their owner’s children.

• They captured other slaves for their masters

• They cooked and sold their food at the market.

What could slave owners do to their slaves? Check all that apply.

• Slave owners could buy and sell slaves.

• Slave owners could break up slave families.

• Slave owners could keep them from leaving the plantation.

• Slaves owners allowed slaves to own property and work whenever they can.

How did slaves use code words and disguise their resistance to their owners?

• The slaves spoke in their native language so that the slave masters would not know they were planning an escape.

• By using stories from the Bible, slaves fooled their owners into thinking they were singing about religion and not their personal dreams of freedom.

• The slaves sang songs about religion.

Which of one these statements is incorrect.

• Slaves had the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

• Slaves worked on cotton plantations.

• Slaves were bought by the slave masters.

• Sometimes the children of slaves were separated from their parents.

Which one of these statements is correct?

• Slaves only worked for 2 hours per day.

• Slaves could not leave the plantation without their owner’s permission

• Slaves owned part of their master's property.

• Slaves were never mistreated.

Given the extreme conditions on plantations, what was the life expectancy of a slave?

• lower than average

• average

• higher than average

Many slaves worked on large farms called ______.

• plantations
• villages

Slaves were captured from _____.

• England
• Europe
• Africa
• France

Capturing, transporting, and selling people is called the 

• slave auction
• overseer
• slave trade
• Middle Passage