Saturday, 30 January 2016

Issues with Millie

Religion 
P. 5 - Christianity and how their master brought them up by preaching Christianity
P. 8 - Masters and mistress as Christians

Food & Clothing 
P. 3 - johnnycakes and buttermilk
P.9 - What they wore and shoes
P. 10 dying clothing and washing them
P. 11 - perfume for clothes
P. 12 -big cake of corn bread and iced for wedding

Living Conditions/lifestyle 
P. 4 (lifestyle) - playing and lifestyle as a child
P. 6 - conditions of slaves' log cabin
P. 8 - talks about what the slaves' houses were like
P. 12 - the owner's house and how they cleaned the floor

Jobs
P.7 - raising cotton & dyeing clothes
P. 9 - process of making shoes
P. 10 - planting indigo & making vinegar out of apples
P.11 - tobacco growing

Treatment by the master 
P. 3 - Mistress raised them and fed them well
P. 8 - they had to rest and go to church, taught to have their own church on plantation
P. 12 - Masters would arrange marriages between slaves
P. 13 - they didn't want to leave their owners once they were free, so they traveled with their owner

Crops
P. 7 - cotton
P. 9 - red oak bark
P. 10 - indigo
P. 11 - tobacco


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