Equality: noun, plural -ties. 1. the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability. 2. uniform character, as of motion or surface. 3. Mathematics . a statement that two quantities are equal; equation.
Equality By: James Hall
Photo number five slavery connects to equality because the slaves were taken from their homes and brought to America. The slaves were forced to work for little to no pay. They had no freedom, so they didn’t have a choice to run away or quit. The slaves worked sixteen hour shifts, doing anything from cleaning to picking and farming crops. The reason that African Americans were picked to be slaves because of their skin color. This connects to equality because that is not fair to treat people like that. The slaves got a tiny house and one bed. The room would fit sometimes five or more people the oldest two got the bed, and everyone else got to mat with no pillow and had to sleep like that. Not to mention they had eight hours to sleep or less!
They would sing songs at to tell tonight would be a good night to either have a meeting or even try to escape. They had to be careful because if they got caught doing any of this they could get whipped, beaten, burned, or even to killed to show the other slaves not to even try.
There were different kinds of slaves. Like some were house slaves were they had to cook and clean at the master’s house, then there’s the slaves you think of slaves. Were they going out to work in the fields, grow crops, picking crops, and other farming duties. They had to walk to whatever field there assigned to and work there like I said sixteen hours. So they had to walk the way home to their cabin and get your mat out and sleep so really they would sleep less than eight hours. So if you didn’t do your job you were at risk of getting in trouble.
Some people let one slave go for good behavior or doing their job to show the other slaves they had a chance to get out if they worked hard. But most likely that would happen only once, and never happen again.
So equality is connected to slaver because slaves were not treated right.
Equality By: Patrick Kayser
I chose photo number five. The Slave Quarters does not connect to Equality. This CDV states “Everyone has the right to be treated equally regardless of race, gender, religion, heritage, or economic status.” This was not true for the slaves. Their masters treated them like property not people. This connects to the photo because the house is not very clean, it’s dirty and kids don’t even get a bed to sleep on. It also connects to not being Equality by having them make stuff for the masters and not for them. When we went to the Slave Quarters the man working there said that they had to make bowls and plates for their master and don’t get to make any for themselves and that their master(s) would whip, burn or even kill the slaves for not obeying him or her. Another reason is when we went to the Plantation and watched the show at Greenfield Village they had to obey and do what was told or punishments would be as severe as being whipped, burned, or killed like I said above. They couldn’t talk to each other or they would get hurt, so the only way was to send messages by singing or telling stories to one another. Another reason is the masters wouldn’t treat them with any respect, like I said they were treated like property. The masters would work you like a dog the whole day and they don’t get much rest at all which does not follow Equality. Also masters worked slaves very hard without paying them. When the moon shines bright around midnight the slaves would plan to escape and run away. Sometimes slaves can be House slaves which they are luck, the woman at the plantation said they get treated more fairly then the ones in the field but still don’t have any equality. According to the actor at the Plantation show she said slaves had nothing really. They could get married and have a family, but you would take the risk of having them sold in an auction or a slave scramble. The woman would sing her way to freedom. She would try her hardest to get Equality. IF Equality says “Everyone has the right to be treated the same as everyone else in the United States,” everyone should be treated that way. And another reason the slaves had exactly no equality was because if they did one exact mistake they would be whipped. Non Slaves wouldn’t be. So as you can see the Slave Quarters does not have equality at all. It’s a good thing we have Honest Abe.
Equality By: Scott Barger
I chose photo number 5 the slave Quarters.I think the slave quarter connects to equality because everybody should be treated equally.If their race or religion or gender or heritage is different than other peoples we are all humans and we should all be treated fairly.This also connects to diversity because no matters if we dress different speak a different language than other people you should still be treated the same as a different gender or race.This also connects individual rights because the slaves had no individual rights the white men told the slaves what to do. If I had to define equality I would say everybody should be treated the same way as others are treated. If I had to define individual rights I would say that everyone has their own rights as long as they don’t use their rights to hurt abuse or threaten others.If I had to define diversity that everybody is protected by the law and people bring other cultures with them.
An example I had frog Greenfield Village was the person said they had no individual rights because the slave owner said that they had to do whatever they say.Another example is just because of their race people they did that to other people.
An interesting fact I learned was that Africans were allowed to have guns to hunt their prey.But they didn’t shoot their masters because they would die and they didn’t know what would happen to their family.
Equality By: Yasmin Saraiva-Meissner
The core democratic value that I think connects to the slave quarters is Equality. The reason that I think this is because white people treated African Americans very poorly. The only reason that they were being this way was only because of the African American’s skin color. Their master’s didn’t care if they were kind or if they had a family. They only care that they’re hard workers and that they’ll listen to what their told to do. They didn’t even think of the fact that they were people too. Also if their master owned more than one slave or even a family they would only give them a place to live, for all of them, that was no bigger that a chicken coop or a shed. There was a bed but only one. For the rest of the slaves they would have to lay blankets on the hard wood floor. They would also probably be all cramped up with the tiny space that they had. Their houses had looked very dirty on the outside. The paint was chipping , and it had looked like someone had tried punching the walls. They rarely got anything at all. Only on Saturdays they got food and it was almost nothing, just like the scraps. Also they would only get two pairs of clothes each year, one for winter and one for summer, and the other seasons they would just have to deal with. They had a fire place to keep them warm because there was no heating. Everything else that they wanted or needed they would have to provide for themselves. They also rarely ever got showered or bathed, so they always smellled horridly of sweat and wheat from working in the corn fields. These are all ways that slaves were treated unfairly.