... . One example was with her dad that decided to abandon her mom and the rest of the family for a yellow skinned female whose husband died in an accident on the farms they worked at. Then again when her and her family moved to a new town after her mom divorced her dad and her mom's new boyfriend was ... yellow and the rest of his family was yellow. The yellow people didn't like her mom just because she ... as rich as the whites were but they had a little more money then moody and her family did. They owned their own house while moody and her family had to rent a shack type house from the ...

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... as the Reconstruction. During this period of time many people suffered in the south. There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. Many other foundations were destroyed that citizens depended upon to keep their economy strong. Some economic hardships included destruction of ... American." (Wood, pg.52) To ensure individual responsibility, the codes outlined apprenticeship and work regulations and the terms of contracts, marriages, and family relations. "For example, in Mississippi there was a law that allowed sheriffs to hire out the labor of prison...

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... Farmers were also hit hard. The federal government favored the new industries as opposed to agriculture. During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and paid really high prices for wheat and other grains. The federal government had told farmers to buy more land, to modernize their methods with ... debt and were given no assistance from our government. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, the socioeconomic status of the white community is depicted with the Finch family as the upper-class. Addicus Finch is the 2nd generation of a plantation owner who is also educated as a lawyer. ...

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... comparing the two, it was interesting to find that they had certain similarities. They went through somewhat parallel struggles including the amount of servitude they provided, their family situations, and political rank in the government. Douglass became a free man when he ran away to New York on September 3, 1838. "...I left my chains ... to have been. During a good portion of his childhood, his father was poor so he would send Davy to work on different farms, so he could provide money for their family. He often traveled, always looking for an assignment. He ran away many times. One inc...

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... the same time, there were women who held no similarities with the working women of the 1940's. For example there were many women forced to give up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. The motive around this movement was to ... 9: Victorian Sexuality During the Nineteenth-Century, there were many prostitutes in New York. Some of these women were young and just looking for some money and to get out of a family home. The prostitutes in New York had evolved into an elite gr...

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... much as planter manipulation of reproduction. On plantations where there were nurseries, women were constantly running back and forth between the field and the quarters to nurse their children. On farms where there was no central place for the children, women had to take their children to the fields with them and either work with them on their backs or put ... . Since nonprolific women were sold, childbearing was a way to anchor oneself to a given plantation for an extended period of time and thus maintain enduring relationships with family and friends. Childbirth also secured somewhat t...

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... view, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive description of an era that shaped the nation. Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia in 1924, where he was raised on a farm with his family. He learned at an early age how to butcher animals, how to grow crops and care for food, and how to manage the farm business. Carter was very well trained ... own farm home as spacious and also explains that they had all the new conveniences as soon as they were available. This gives you an idea of how wealthy Carter's family really was. His father ordered a windmill in 1935 from Sears and Roebuck and extende...

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... which paid very little. Mathabane illustrates this point by describing the jobs of his parents and other blacks that he knows. His grandmother, for instance, is a gardener for a rich white family. His mother did not get a job until Mark started school and she needed to help pay school expenses. She was unable to get a work permit so she had to find ... a job within Alexandria. She finally found one as the housekeeper of an Indian family. Passbooks were also an integral part of the white's control over the blacks. Passbooks were the black's identification and proof that they had paid all...

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... one day be a free slave or that slavery may not exist by the time their child is grown. The majority of the African slaves worked on tobacco plantations and large farms. Working in a tobacco plantation was one of the hardest things to do. It was an eleven month crop, which had four different stages to it and required constant care. There ... were some advantages to working on a farm or plantation verses working in a household or an urban setting. Generally slaves in plantations lived in complete family units, their work dictated by the rising and setting of the sun. They generally were ...

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... called slave owners or masters. Slaves didn't really have any rights. Slave owners would whip slaves who complained. Owners could sell slaves for money at auctions. Many slaves worked on farms called plantations. In the South, slavery was legal, which means it was okay by law. In the north, slavery was illegal, which means it was against the law. At age ... to freedom using the people and safe houses of the Underground Railroad. It took her about a week to get to Pennsylvania, a free state. After Harriet became free, she led her family and her friends to freedom. She became the "conduct...

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... the central location for those industries. This explains it's heavy dependence on slave labor. "The differential between slaveholders and non-slaveholders also is strikingly evident in the productivity of their farms in practically every other category measured - (p.7) With slavery so deeply imbedded in southern society, ownership of slaves was widely considered to be a sign of higher social status. This is evidence ... use the male slaveholder's disposal. "As her master he considered sexual relations with her his privilege."" (p. 33) McLaurin describes southern white women as "powerles...

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... two or three slaves, planters with ten to thirty slaves and big planters who owned a thousand or more slaves. Scholars generally agree that slaves received better treatment on the small farms and plantation that did not employ overseers or general managers. Almost half of the slaves, however, live, worked and died on plantations where the owners assigned much of their authority ... pounds of bacon or salt pork. They were also given milk, potatoes, peas and beans, molasses, and fish. Fractional amounts, usually one-half, were allotted to each child in the family. Most slaves supplemented...

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... were limited to whites only. Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks were not wanted. However, African Americans could take part in sharecropping and tenancy, which grew by the late 1800's due to a prolonged deflation in crop ... prices over a period of years. In America it states, "By 1890 most southern farms were worked by people who did not own the land" (845). Sharecroppers would offer their labor and in return would receive supplies and a share of...

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