House+Slaves

House Slaves
House Slaves were abused more than field slaves, because they worked close to the Master and his family. Some of the jobs of house slaves are cook, maid, spinner, and cleaners. On Sundays field slaves do not have to work, house slaves never have a day off. In some cases the Master would make a slave do meaning less work such as handing the slat at a dinner table. Masters would do this, because they wanted to enforce that a slave was just property. Field slaves saw house slaves as being close to the Master. "They are just the same as white men," said by a former slave. This could not be further from the truth. Slave were constantly around their Masters, but because of this they were constantly criticized. Some field slaves would sneak out to the main house to see the house slaves. Master did not like field slaves building a relationship with house slaves, because they felt that it would destroy the house slaves. To prevent this the Master would put guards around the house and keep the slaves busy.



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