life on plantations

7/25/2019 Life on Plantations

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Why Do Historians Disagree

about Life On The Plantations?

By Mr Caslinwww.SchoolHistory.co.u


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What is a !lantation?

"t is a far# that grows only one cro! $such as tobacco% sugar or cotton.

Slaves were used to do all

of the hard work whilst thewhite owners collected the

profits.


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So% why &o historians &isagree

about the life of !eo!le on the!lantations?

Historian One'

Life on the Plantations was easy for the sla(es. They got to

wor outsi&e in the !leasant sunshine an& s!ent ti#e with

their fa#ilies.

Historian Two'

Life on the Plantations was har&% bac breaing wor.

Sla(es were often treate& ba&ly an& ha& little ti#e to loo

after their fa#ilies.


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We all inter!ret e(i&ence in

&ifferent ways Story writers,

historians, artists,

museums. History is always

changing!

Beware of

interpretations

they can be wrong.


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Beware of BIAS. This is when a !erson only

consi&ers one sideof the story. Why #ight

they &o this? Liverpool an "td

#

Liverpool batteredthe devils in a

fantastic match. an

"td were useless.

$ritten By %.Scouser

&from Liverpool'


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Loo at this !icture)).

$hat mightbe

happening in

this picture(

)ould you bemistaken( ight it

be something else(


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This is a !lantation.

What is ha!!ening here? Describe what you see.


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Here is a scene fro# life on a

!lantation. $hat are they

doing(

*s it hard work( $ould you like to do

it(

$ould you do it for+-H*+( +o pay(


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*+a#ine this scene.

How &o they loo? What are their clothes lie? What &o you

thin they ha(e been &oing? How ol& are they? How &o youthinthey are feeling?


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Loo at these li(ing con&itions)

Who woul& li(e in a house lie this? ,"T "S -OM /

PL/0T/T"O012


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0ow loo at these ho#es).

$ho would live in a

house like this(

How is it differentfrom the previous

house(

)an you point out

any of the positive

aspects of the

house(


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Why &o historians &isagree about life on the

!lantations?

Bias affects our /udgment. 0vidence can be looked at in several ways.

pinions are our personal views on a sub/ect.

Let1s try to be biased to show how historians can disagree with eachother222..

Split into two groups historian one and two. "se the sources to create a

biased view of life on the plantations


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*(i&ence


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3ou can also use written sources.

-he slaves got their allowance every onday night of molasses, meat, cornmeal, and a kind of flour called 3dredgings3 or 3shorts.3 4erhaps thisallowance would be gone before the ne5t onday night, in which case theslaves would steal hogs and chickens. -hen would come the whipping6post.

aster himself never whipped his slaves7 this was left to the overseer.

$e children had no supper, and only a little piece of bread or something of thekind in the morning. ur dishes consisted of one wooden bowl, and oystershells were our spoons. -his bowl served for about fifteen children, and oftenthe dogs and the ducks and the peafowl had a dip in it. Sometimes we had

buttermilk and bread in our bowl, sometimes greens or bones.8+arrative of the sufferings of Lewis )lark 9:;1

(2) Francis Fredric Fifty Years of Slavery (1863)


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(2) Francis Fredric, Fifty Years of Slavery(1863)

Slaves every onday morning have a certain

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