Slave Assingment During your education of middle school all up to high school even college it's 100% chances you have heard the word slavery or even slave most of you heard about the African slaves in U.S. But slavery started since 1619, when the colonist settle Jamestown in 1607 they found out a crop a productive crop in North America called Tabaco. Imagine the U.S. Having slaves until 1865 this is almost 246 years of slavery there was even conflicts about slavery in the U.S. That some states even separated and made their own Union, a union allowing a wealthy person to own, sell and trade people human beings just to do labor work like plantations, fields, house work " maid". Downers would even apart family's, punish the slaves even sometimes …show more content…
The Anglos knew that if they go to Texas they could start a new way of life remember back then if you had thousands of acres or even hundreds you would be considerer wealthy. While the Anglos were exploding the slaves they would pay the prices a slave had to work hard in the fields of cotton they would harvest, crop and it would continue are some slaves would get lucky and be a houses lave could be a butter or maid the only good thing was their was no sun burning them, but imagine working in a house light cloths in a hot house remember no a.c and fans. Also most of the masters "avower" were mean it they catch some eating stolen food or stealing valuable things they would be punish they would wipped in the back. In this case I am going narrative a slave life a slave from …show more content…
Why Houston? Alice Houston is a pioneer nurse and midwife, she was brown oct 22, 1859 she was a slave of a judge named Jim Watkins in a small plantation near hays country near San Marcos and in here she was a house girl. Alice tells that she was a small child when the civil war started and she claims that she had the best while owners in the word. As you herd slave owners were mean, but in this case Alice was house girl and a maid hurse this is here were she became a nurse. She was daughter of Mariah and Henry Watkins, she started by describe her mothers possums meal, she said it was her favorite meal, stele starts talking about his master he had a big land a big planation and back of it the slaves would live in logged house she said real clean and comfortable. Remember other masters wouldn't care for the slaves just give them a place to say, Alice also said they had beds and they were good. Some times as kids they would steal a fruit and master would give them a spank, but he would do this because it was wowing to steat. She also explained that her white folks said that slaves had to be reacted right ho hitting slaves no hurting. Even they teach the slaves how toread and write they also let the slaves go to school, not all masters had the same way of thinking, some master were against showing slaves to read and write. Also she said in Christmas and new year they would get treated right by their masters they