A Crossroads Resource

Unit VI: "Now We Are Engaged In A Great Civil War": 1848-1880

Question/Problem 1: What was life like for slaves in the United States prior to the Civil War?

Personal Accounts of Slavery

Punishment

Not all masters were cruel, but some were. Select a passage from pages 36-37 of "To Be a Slave" by Julius Lester (New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968) which describes how one master punished a slave.

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