Question

Describe life during Colonial times for all of the following:
1. Slaves - Examine how they lived, where they lived, and the importance of dance in their lives.
2.Children - Their role in the home / work around the house, how children learned to read and what they did for schooling
4. Women – What roles did women take both in the home and during times of war?
5. African Americans – What contributions did they make? How did they help shape colonial society?

Answer 1

The history of SLAVERY spans from ancient times to the present day. Slavery was a legally recognized system in which people were legally allowed the property or chattel of another.[1] A slave had few rights and could be bought or sold and made to work for the owner without any choice or pay. As Drescher (2009) argues, "The most crucial and frequently utilised aspect of the condition is a communally recognised right by some individuals to possess, buy, sell, discipline, transport, liberate, or otherwise dispose of the bodies and behaviour of other individuals."[2] In the American colonies and other places, an integral element was frequently the assignment of children of a slave mother to the status of slaves born into slavery.[3] Slavery under this definition does not include other forced labour systems, such as historical forced labor by prisoners, labor camps, or other forms of unfree labor, in which labourers are not legally considered property. Slavery typically requires a shortage of labor and a surplus of land to be viable.[1] While slavery has existed for thousands of years, the social, economic, and legal position of slaves was vastly different in different systems of slavery in different times and places.

Answer 2

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