Walter Calloway: How Were Slavers Life?

How were slavers’ life? “Slavery” is the subjects that most of people usually mentions and concerns about. However, people lives in the modern life with fully of happiness, peaceful, and freedom, so they rarely gave the exact answer of how slaves’ lives were. People, in the 18th and 19th century, used the slaves as goods, things, consumers to traded and sold in their daily life. Also, slavery killed millions of people, took away plenty children’s lives, and freedoms. As a human being, many feelings would touch the heart of each person, if people sit down and listen about the slavery stories. There are a lot of stories to talk about slavery, however the common knowledge that the slaves had to face with punishments, non-equally treatments, and

It was also including several beating per a day. Walter Calloway was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1848. The first thing Walter remembered is being purchased as a slave by John Calloway. John Calloway took the family to the plantation that was moved ten several miles of Montgomery in Alabama. The life of the family was very hard there; as a boy was ten years old, Walter tried to against the works from their owner, then it caused too much pain for him resulted in a punishment. That was the reason it was better not say any words against the masters. The most punishment for black people were not only whippings and the most terrible things about it was the white masters never did it by themselves but always had another black slaves to do it. In other words, that made one brother whip another brother. Walter Calloway mentions with the painful in his eyes, “He had a big black boy name Mose, mean as de debil

G.L Summer. Those masters would not have treated their slave as a human. However, William Ballard was born in Winnsboro in Fairfield County situated in South Carolina, with several other children. His master was Jim Aiken who had a large and many land at Winnsboro at that time. Jim Aiken was a kind and powerful master; he never whipped or treated the slaves badly. His wife was a caring, and sympathetic woman; she was taking care about the slave by all of her heart. William responds: “he was good to us and give us plenty to eat, and good quarters to live in”. William used to work honestly hard for Jim Aiken, because he knew the terrible way that other masters treated their slaves. William shows, “We was allowed three pounds o’meat, one quart o’molasses, grits and other things each week; plenty for us to eat,” he continues by telling when they had freedom, some slaved wanted to stay wit their Jim Aiken, because he provided everything they needed, gave them stability and treated them as man, and not slaves in the first place: “When freedom came, he told us we was free, and if we wanted to stay on with him, he would do the best he could for us. Most of us stayed, and after a few months, he paid wages”. The masters’ relations was not only between the slave and their owner, but it was also between the slave and the masters’ family members. William remembers many horrible