African Americans would you buy a house that once housed slaves? I am doing some renovating and cleaning out of this old historical house for a female friend who just purchased it. The house is pretty old and its stipulated that the house has to remain in its original form. In other words she can't change or alter any of the foundation. Its in a really nice neighborhood with modern expensive type homes. First why would someone who owned slaves stipulate they want the house to remain in its original form? Then, why would any African American want to purchase it knowing its history? Do anyone find this kind of strange? |
Sure it'd be like a "Look whos laughin' now" to the guy that orignially owned it.
Its like a big F*ck you! |
Need some facts on African American house slaves? soo im doing this project and it involves house slaves. i have a BIG blank space on my poster, and i need a paragraph to fill it in. Anyone have any good facts and the website its from because i also need to cite my sources. i already have paragraphs on -treatment of house slaves -relationship with the master -duties of a house slave. what else is there to fill in that blank? |
The Smith Plantation Home in Roswell Georgia actually treated their slaves humanely. They were friends, and they wrote and recieved letters to/from the boys who were off fighting in the war, and continued working as servants in the home after the War. They even took care of the guyren as if they were nannies.
I am a docent (Tour guide) there..
This makes your source a primary source, meaning you learned it straight from the witness/expert, whatever you want to call it.
You can call me Mr. Malone, or you can use the website for our museum if your teacher is a citation nazi.
www.archibaldsmithplantation.org/ |
Were house slaves allowed to communicate with the slaves in the fields? I'm writing a narrative for my English class and I'd like to know if this was allowed.... Thanks! |
House Slaves where allowed to speak to slave in the field. However, due to the social taboo imposed by the slave masters, house slaves were made to believe that their status was higher than that of a common field slave.
Normally, those who worked in the house were lighter-skinned, had less-coarse hair and more European features. The slave owners felt that these types of African Americans were more "attractive" and more acceptable than darker, coarser haired slaves.
In essense, the house slave did not speak to the field slave by choice. And depending on their appearance, completely denied being African American all together. |
Do you find it pretty messed up that the current president is black and he lives in a house built by slaves? OK before you scream the Truman renovation at me, i mean the original white house was built using slaves. |
| yes it's pretty messed up. if i was black i wouldn't live in no slave house. And the structure of the Whit House is still the original structure. The Truman Renovation gutted the house and built a new metal inner support structure and redid the whole house. but the original stone structure it s still there today all the way back from it's creation. and it was built by slaves. and Free Mansions. |
Do you think this house slave field slave mentality really penetrated the descendants of American slaves? I think it did. Look at the media and the way they say light skinned people are "exotic" and etc and then the ones who completely hate themselves for who they are. Then the good hair bad hair thing. Then the whole light skin vs Dark skin concept period. Don't act like it doesn't exist.
Im definitely NOT saying only African americans suffer from self hate. Though it seems are large number do. Including Blacks in latin countries. |
I think it's all in self preference and environment. Some men like only dark skinned women because they believe us light skinned women to be too cocky or self absorbed and they say the darker the more real you are. I think if you grew up majority around darker skinned women or if your mother was darker skinned then you are more likely to date them. Me my mother loves dark skinned guys and I'm the same way, I've had a preference for light skinned guys but every time I tried to date one they came off weird to me, so I came to the sense that the darker the male the better for ME.
I used to not like being so light skinned because every morning I just felt PALE but after taken a trip to jamaica and getting a tan I couldn't wait for my real color to come back because dark just don't fit my facial features. Other than that I believe it's all in the person, if you're dumb enough to be influenced by today's definition of beauty then you need more confidence in yourself.
EDIT: Also, yes I do believe that to be true that due to house slave vs the field slaves, the house slaves may have felt a sense of superiority towards the field ones.
@ leonel - I have light skinned friends that parents are both black, just because one is light skinned don't make them biracial, Blacks come in different shades they aren't like white people who come in one shade and have to tan to get the diversity within them. |
Why did house slaves sometimes snitch on field slaves? did they feel like they were better since they had it somewhat easier working in the house? |
| Correct. Those slaves thought they were better than the field slaves. Plus, they were kissing up to the white man. |
What was life like for house slaves and their white owners? I am writting a story about a wman wo was a slave, and i need to know all about their lives, please help! |
| well it certainly wasnt a box of roses |
Who owned the slaves who originally built the White House? I know from history that the White House was built with slave labor, and of course this was also mentioned during Obama's inauguration. USA has come a long way. But, were the slaves owned by the government? by a construction company? Not sure I have ever understood this. |
| The government did not own slaves. They paid private owners to use their slaves to help build the White House because it was difficult finding free people who would take the job. Slaves constituted only a small part of the labor. |
What thing on the window of a house designated it as a safe house for slaves in the Underground Railroad? Well I don`t have anymore detail. Its a video worksheet my teacher gave me, but I was gone the day of the video...so I need the answers...and thats all it says. |
| lantern on a hitching post means safe house |