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Life on the plantation was difficult and that is reflected in the Newton Slave burial ground in Barbados. The archeological evidence found in the burial ground shows "There was a gendering of health, wealth and energy on sugar plantations. The majority of field slaves were women and the majority of women worked in the field."
Although a female slave's labor in the field superseded child-rearing in importance, the responsibilities of childbearing and childcare greatly circumscribed the life of an enslaved woman. This also explains why female slaves were less likely to run away than men. [35]
Slave (later freed), Wife, plantation manager, slave owner Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley , born Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye (18 June 1793 [ 1 ] – April or May 1870), also known as Anna Kingsley , Anta Majigeen Njaay or Anna Madgigine Jai , [ 2 ] was a West African from present-day Senegal , who was enslaved and sold in Cuba, probably via the slave ...
"Children of the plantation" is a euphemism used [by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery in the United States in which the offspring was born to black African female slaves (either still in the state of slavery or freed) in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Non-Black men, usually the slave ...
Slave hospitals were thought to be an essential part of plantation life by Dr. A. P. Merrill and Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright. [10] The physicians believed that the slaves' bodies were biologically and physiologically different than those of Whites; therefore, they should have their own resource for medical attention and treatment. [10]
One of them, the Louisiana Slave Database, referenced by the Whitney Plantation, contains over 100,000 entries documenting people enslaved in Louisiana from 1719 to 1820. While there are no photos ...
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1963.
Krystin Ver Linden’s “Alice” is a righteous fable about a Black woman (Keke Palmer) who escapes from an isolated Georgia plantation that’s enslaved her, her husband (Gaius Charles) and her ...