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In some ways, the slave children can be compared to the children of the slums in the NY. Only sorta mind you. The comparison is that they both had to start working from a really early age. I know we didn't get an age for the kids in NY, but the slave children were working at the age of 6... which means some of them probably got beat for 'misbehaving' at the age of 6... or even younger. :-( --Ashley Wilkins | In some ways, the slave children can be compared to the children of the slums in the NY. Only sorta mind you. The comparison is that they both had to start working from a really early age. I know we didn't get an age for the kids in NY, but the slave children were working at the age of 6... which means some of them probably got beat for 'misbehaving' at the age of 6... or even younger. :-( --Ashley Wilkins | ||
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| + | In reading the chapter on slave marriage and families, I was struck by the practice of slave masters encouraging pregnancy in their female slaves for their own financial benefit. This seems to be a grave contradiction with the statistics that Stevenson provides showing that over half of slave babies died before the age of 1. It seems very odd that a master would provide incentives for female slaves to reproduce and yet provide them with such poor living situations and conditions that only half of their babies survived to actually be an asset to them. This really illustrates the lack of value they put on the life of slaves as human beings. --Sarah Gardner | ||
