How did black children experience enslavement? How were their lives and work different on a small plantation versus a large one?
What will be an ideal response?
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Explain the cost and benefit analysis for masters regarding black slave children: they performed limited labor and did not receive many resources.
2. Define the limited odd jobs and daily light labor expected of black children.
3. Explain the increased labor expected of young adult slaves as they assimilated to adult work regimes.
4. Outline how on larger plantations nuclear households remained relatively intact, children had one or more parents with them, African culture was strong, and fictive kinship flourished.
5. Outline how on smaller plantations children experienced less contact with other blacks, closer association with white master's family, less African cultural influence, greater assimilation to white society, and less opportunity for resistance and escape.
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What will be an ideal response?
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