William Grimes's Life On The Plantation
Devastation, blood filled beatings, cruel dehumanizing owners, scars, mutiny, and no self will or freedom. All these things were within an ordinary life for a slave. William Grimes, a slave born in 1784, was just one of the many enslaved humans at this time. However his story is just one of the many throughout slavery. His life began to change when a slave became jealous of his job in the main house, so the slave slipped medicine into the masters coffee that Grimes had prepared. In conclusion Grimes was given 50 lashes with a whip for what the master thought he had done. This was just a normal life for your common slave. Even though slavery is illegal now, While it was happening it was still brutal and pitiful for all slaves involved.
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In the book “Life on the plantation” by Richard Worth it Proclaims “ The harsh conditions on the slave ships and the lack of food undermined the health of female slaves. This meant they could often bear few children when they reached North America” ( Worth 30 ). The females aboard ship had to suffer due to the hands of the people who already abducted them from their homes, and had no other choice but to endure this treatment and suffer, or lash out and be severely beaten or even killed. In the book “Life on the plantation” by Richard Worth it also is noted “Work in the Tobacco fields required a lot of bending and crouching, which strained the backs and knees of slaves” ( Worth 33 ). All skates who had their free will taken and who were being forced to work in these horrible conditioned fields wore having their health jeopardized all because their masters were lazy and money …show more content…
Masters had all the say and made all the decisions for these slaves, therefore making it so the slaves had no other choice but to life in theses conditions they were given and eat the mush they were feed as if they were animals instead of human beings. If these slaves did retaliate and make their own decisions to either speak out or run away they would be brutally beaten or even killed for trying to have the free will everyone else was allowed to
In the book “Life on the plantation” by Richard Worth it Proclaims “ The harsh conditions on the slave ships and the lack of food undermined the health of female slaves. This meant they could often bear few children when they reached North America” ( Worth 30 ). The females aboard ship had to suffer due to the hands of the people who already abducted them from their homes, and had no other choice but to endure this treatment and suffer, or lash out and be severely beaten or even killed. In the book “Life on the plantation” by Richard Worth it also is noted “Work in the Tobacco fields required a lot of bending and crouching, which strained the backs and knees of slaves” ( Worth 33 ). All skates who had their free will taken and who were being forced to work in these horrible conditioned fields wore having their health jeopardized all because their masters were lazy and money …show more content…
Masters had all the say and made all the decisions for these slaves, therefore making it so the slaves had no other choice but to life in theses conditions they were given and eat the mush they were feed as if they were animals instead of human beings. If these slaves did retaliate and make their own decisions to either speak out or run away they would be brutally beaten or even killed for trying to have the free will everyone else was allowed to