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On some plantations the owners would provide the slaves with housing, usually
small ________, on others the slaves had to build their own homes. Living
conditions were __________ with sometimes as many as ten people sharing a hut.
They had to rely on their owners providing them with housing or building
materials, pots and pans for cooking and eating, food and clothing.
Slaves would be given one pair of shoes and three items of underwear a year.
Although these and other clothing would be provided by their owner, they were
often ____________and made of coarse material.
Slaves would spend their __________ __________ mending their huts, making pots and pans and relaxing.
Some plantation owners allowed their slaves a small ___________ of land to grow things to supplement
their diet.
Slaves were not allowed to read or write, but some were allowed to go to church.
Most did not __________ complain for fear of receiving a whipping or worse _____________. Many slaves
tried to _____________ themselves either by revolts or by fleeing, but most of them were caught and
killed. Those who fled went to Canada, thanks to the help of the Underground Railroad, freed slaves and
white sympathisers.
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Declaration. This act made all slaves free. It
was not at all a humanist decision though. Lincoln ___________ the act mainly because of the Civil War. The
Northern and the Southern States fought in a _____________ and the __________ of the latter relied
heavily on slavery. Texas was the last state to ____________ African Americans in 1865. Even though
African Americans were freed, they were still second-class citizen. After slavery, black people experienced
__________________.
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