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== Landon Carter complains about his female slaves (1771-1773) == | == Landon Carter complains about his female slaves (1771-1773) == | ||
You can read throughout his complaints, he sees himself to be superior to them, calling them "absurd" and "lazy and careless." As he complains about how someone must be there when they are cutting down the tobacco or they will do it wrong. Is someone around to show his slaves how to properly do it or explain to them? I'm sure the complaints of slaves being in pain are legitimate and Landon Carter is just not sympathetic to their aches and pains. He disregards their complaints and treats them like work horses. He says they need a "good whipping" and that will make the pain go away as it cured Mrs. Dairy Mary's "invisible pain in her hip." Then eventually he admits that no matter what the punishment they still will not work well because they are negros. I think that during that time that negro slaves were looked at inferior to the white colonists but what was the degree of treatment of slaves? Was Landon Carter's assumption about negro slaves generally agreed upon or was he the exception? When I read George Washington Assigns Work to His Slaves, there wasn't any comments about slaves being mistreated. -Marsha Himes | You can read throughout his complaints, he sees himself to be superior to them, calling them "absurd" and "lazy and careless." As he complains about how someone must be there when they are cutting down the tobacco or they will do it wrong. Is someone around to show his slaves how to properly do it or explain to them? I'm sure the complaints of slaves being in pain are legitimate and Landon Carter is just not sympathetic to their aches and pains. He disregards their complaints and treats them like work horses. He says they need a "good whipping" and that will make the pain go away as it cured Mrs. Dairy Mary's "invisible pain in her hip." Then eventually he admits that no matter what the punishment they still will not work well because they are negros. I think that during that time that negro slaves were looked at inferior to the white colonists but what was the degree of treatment of slaves? Was Landon Carter's assumption about negro slaves generally agreed upon or was he the exception? When I read George Washington Assigns Work to His Slaves, there wasn't any comments about slaves being mistreated. -Marsha Himes | ||
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| + | Landon Carter’s diary showed that he was frustrated with what he saw as the stupidity and laziness of his slaves. I think it is more likely that these slaves were engaged in a passive aggressive resistance to his authority. A slave woman such as Sicely, the cowkeeper, had very little control over her own life, but she could ruin her master’s day by allowing a cow to wander into a swamp. -Allison Luthern | ||
== George Washington's slave list (1786) and slave work assignments (1786-88) == | == George Washington's slave list (1786) and slave work assignments (1786-88) == | ||
