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Slavery in the Americas
- Africans who survived ocean voyage faced a difficult life
- After being sold, slaves worked in mines or fields or as domestic servants
- Most slaves lived on little food and in small dreary huts, worked long days and suffered beatings
- Slavery was a lifelong thing in most of America, it was hereditary
- Africans developed a way of life based on their cultural heritage to cope with the horrors of slavery
- They kept their music as well as stories of their ancestors
- Slaves found ways to resist, by braking tools, uprooting plants, and working slowly
- Thousands of slaves ran away
- Some slaved pushed their resistance to open revolt
- Occasionally uprising would occur
- In 1739 slaves in South Carolina led an uprising known as the Stono Rebellion, which continued into the 1800's