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Blacks were slaves, just in 1830 not 1930!.
A great book to read is "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to get a feel for the weird symbiosis slavery creates!.

Their 'roles' were very much what anyone had to do in an agrarian society!. You had to plant & harvest crops, care for the animals, maintain the equipment, cook, clean & raise the kids!.

The fundamental difference was blacks were considered to BE one of the farm animals!.

And a fairly expensive one!. In modern terms a slave would cost between $50,000 - $150,000!. So in general only the wealthy had slaves!. And if you could afford to have 'house' slaves you were doing VERY well indeed!.

Slavery compelled black women to an elevated sense of matriarchy as compensation for the loss of patriarchy necessitated by maintaining slavery!. The mother was the core of the family since the father might be sold away, or a 'stud' brought in for breeding, or the white slave holder unwilling to assert paternal rights since 'good Christians' were not suppose to have sex with their slaves!. (JFTR Romans had NO problem with this notion)

The politics of Slavery is fascinating & Slavery has been with us almost as long as civilization!. It's worth the effort to compare American slavery to that in the Roman era!. But resist the "White Guilt/Shame" propaganda!. Anglos did not typically 'round' up the slaves, they bought them from other Africans & it's really quite remarkable the members of one ethnic group would kill each other over a matter of fairness towards a different group!.



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First of all - you need to get your history and dates correct!. In the USA, the Civil War in the 1860's abolished slavery - so in the 1930's there were no black slaves in the US!.

During the period of black slavery in the USA, men and women often occupied the same roles - with both sexes working in the house, and in the fields!.

In the house, women worked as cooks, housemaids (cleaning, waiting, etc) and as specialist ladies maids and nursery/nannies!.

Children also worked in both house and fields - usually performing "lighter" duties than adults!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The slaves went out in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation!. Before that time women slaves were field hands, Cooks, Nannies, and Housekeepers!. The men were field hands, Butlers, Ministers, Drivers, and General overseers of their own race!. The children usually worked in the field or in the house with their mother!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Civil war didn't end slavery, though slavery was one of the causes of the civil war!.

Emanicpation proclamation was two executive orders of abraham lincoln declaring slaves in the confederate states to be free(1861), but did not technically make slavery illegal

Slavery became illegal on December 6, 1965 with the ratification of the 13th amendment!.

Some female slaves were houseservants and were assigned cooking and cleaning tasks!. Most were worked along with men and children in tobbaco and cotton farming tasks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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In 1930, slavery was illegal in the United States!.

But earlier, like in the 1800's, women usually wash clothes, cook meals for their masters, and cleaned the house up!. If a woman's master had a baby, the slaves would breastfeed the child!. Children usually helped the women!. Men did all the hard work!. They cut down trees and repair furniture and wells!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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maybe i'm wrong but I thought slavery was abolished before the 1930's!?

some of the women worked the farms with the men and others were also servants in the slave owners homes and also nannies to their children!.

i don't know what the children did!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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!.!.!.!.at they Junteenth pignics!.!.!.!.many emancipated womens juz sat around do'n nutin' much Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I think it would be best to go to the library to look that up!. To be posting it here might get you some negative backlash!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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