Slavery and Culture

Examples of jobs slaves would do

• factory

• butlers, cook

• blacksmith, nurse, picking cotton

• drive tractor

Check all the ways that slaves found comfort in their difficult lives

• playing basketball
• time with family
• telling folktales
• listening to radio
• singing spirituals

What was the most important thing that kept slaves going during these hard times?

Families were never separated because of slavery.

• true
• false

A moral in a folktale teaches you a

• subject
• lesson

What was one of the songs they would listen to for hope? (under Religion section)

Check all of the ways slaves would rebel

• working at a slower pace
• asking for a break
• run away
• ask for more work

An auction was how slaves were

• taken

• bought/sold

• paid

• separated from family

Living conditions were (select all that apply)

• safe

• secure

• dehumanizing

• difficult

Some of the living conditions consisted of

• buffet breakfast

• dirt floor cabins

• air conditioning

• bottled water