Slave Families
- Slaves lived in cabins made of logs. These cabins had no floor or windows and when it rained, water would seep in through the cracks.
- Young girls were expected to have children early on in their lives.
- The more children a women had the more valuable of a slave she was.
- In one situation, a women was so fed up about her master selling her children, she killed her 2 month old baby so it didn't have to live a horrific slave life.
- Many slaves were given limited amount of food- usually the crop in which there was a surplus of.
- Slave families were often split up and different members of the family were bought by other masters.