Life+of+Slaves+in+Antebellum+America

Not all slaves experienced these stages, but many did. Out of the seven, extermination never happened. Enslaving could be considered a way of extermination, but the point was not to kill them, it was to enslave them.

Classification- They classified them as animals, savages. Some people genuinely thought that they were like animals, and didn't have feelings. Which i just don't understand, but people thought that.

Symbolization- They were symbolized by the names they were given, like negroes, blackies, etc.

Dehuminization- In this section african americans were denied their humanity, nobody really thought them actually human. Back then it was a common fact that they just weren't human, they were animals to them, nothing but savages.

Organization- This form of "genocide" was organized by the basically the people of the south, they set it up, they enforced it, and they used the slaves.

Polorization- The slaves were denied their citizenship, they were seperated from the whites, people didn't like them because other people didn't like them. Some fathers told their sons that they weren't really people, and just from that the sons wouldn't like them for their whole life.

Identification- They were identified just because of their skin and where they came from. They were forced onto plantations, where they worked for nothing, and were treated terribly by their masters.

Denial- In this form of genocide, the denial stage would be the south constantly saying that it's not wrong, their not real people, it's ok that we do this.

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**A SLAVES DIET AND CLOTHING:** A slave's diet was monotonous, low in protein, high in carbohydrates, and usually very low in calories. some places didn't even supply any meat, slaves had to get their own. When meat was provided, slaves got the least desirable cuts, like heads, vertebrae, ribs, and feet. Prince Smith, one ex-slave explained that, "Only on Christmas, he [the master] killed and give a piece of meat." Clothing was little better than the food for most slaves. Some places provided winter clothes, but summer clothes had to made themselves. Even such simple items as blankets were carefully controlled by the plantation master focused on profits. At one place, for example, only a third of the slaves got a new blanket every year. It was a great "privilege" when in when the master provided every slave on his plantation with a new blanket.

HOUSING FOR SLAVES: While some houses were raised off the ground, not all slaves were so fortunate. Sylvia Cannon describes living conditions during her time as a slave in an area near Florence: "There were about twenty other colored people house there in the quarter. The ground been us floor and us fireplace been down on the ground. Take sticks and make chimney, 'cause there won't no bricks and won't no sawmills to make lumber when I come". Although there are many descriptions of these settlements, our best views come from photographs taken at low country plantations during the Civil War. (as seen below) houses generally had: 
 * a door facing the street
 * one or two window openings
 * shutters over the windows, since glass was uncommon
 * roofs covered with wooden shingles or boards
 * chimneys made of brick, tabby, or sticks and mud