the skills they possessed, and the white person who owned them, are all factors that affected the quality of a slave’s life.
3) Urban slaves were usually hired year round as skilled or unskilled laborers. They had much more freedom of contact and movement and were frequently friendly and in contact with the large population of free slaves in the South, who occasionally taught these urban slaves to read and write. Urban women slaves usually worked as maids, nannies, and other positions around the owner’s…
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