DIFFERENCES IN EXPERIENCES OF MALE AND FEMALE SLAVES (USE TEXTBOOK, LECTURE NOTES, ARN’T I A WOMAN, NARRATIVE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND LIST PAGE NUMBER NEXT TO EVIDENCE) Male Slaves Female Slaves Types of Work 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. Forms of Rebellion 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. Forms of Abuse or Punishment that Masters Gave 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. Text1: 0: 0: 0: They were working in the farms. (Eric Foner,146)1: Men tend to use their muscles and involve in an exceedingly fight seeking for a rebellion. (62 , Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)2: They have been order by the master to work all season and under all the circumstances. (55,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)1: 0: They were working as a cooker. (Eric Foner,142)1: Women started to engage with white people. (148, Eric Foner) 2: They were treated in a very bad manners and getting beating every time to death.(21,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass) 1: 0: 0: They were working as craftsman in shops or stores.(Eric Foner,146)1: They blend with the white society and learn their language and realign. (148, Eric Foner ) 2: They get punish by the master every time they tried to escape. (92, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)1: 0: They were employed in a dairy to help their boss. (Eric Foner,142)1: Slave were seeking for his or her rights and liberty. therefore, women; since they were operating as maid; they tried to poisons their owner.(79, Deborah Gray White)2: They got separated from their family wither a son, brother, a husband, or father. (43,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass) 2: 0: 0: Along with working as privet workers to people, they were working at the port to lead and unload products form the ship. (Eric Foner,146)1: They thought that they might influence people for revolution by performing some action like singing. (167, Deborah Gray White) 2: The masters had them do the most risky work because they thought that their life is worthless. (65, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass) 1: 0: They worked as personal worker for their owner (Eric Foner,142)1: while their owner not around, Women were trying to give food to slaves. (155, Deborah Gray White) 2: The owner did not offer any kind of medicine or a cure for them whenever they get hurt or sick. (166, Deborah Gray White) Jassim Alajmi HIST 172 Jane Dabel January 16, 2018 Slavery in The Nineteenth Century Different Experience Between Male and Female Slave “There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: least of all mother of your son.” Is very well-known quote by Franz Grillparzer which trying to influence to not owen or have people as slave and not to treat them like that. In the nineteenth century, people were importing African people from their home and use them as slave and to do works that white peo.

1. DIFFERENCES IN EXPERIENCES OF MALE AND FEMALE
SLAVES
(USE TEXTBOOK, LECTURE NOTES, ARN’T I A WOMAN,
NARRATIVE OF FREDERICK
DOUGLASS AND LIST PAGE NUMBER NEXT TO
EVIDENCE)
Male Slaves Female Slaves
Types of Work
1.
2.
3.

2. 1.
2.
3.
Forms of Rebellion
1.
2.
3.

3. 1.
2.
3.
Forms of Abuse or
Punishment that
Masters Gave
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.

4. 3.
Text1: 0: 0: 0: They were working in the farms. (Eric
Foner,146)1: Men tend to use their muscles and involve in an
exceedingly fight seeking for a rebellion. (62 , Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass)2: They have been order by the
master to work all season and under all the circumstances.
(55,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)1: 0: They were
working as a cooker. (Eric Foner,142)1: Women started to
engage with white people. (148, Eric Foner) 2: They were
treated in a very bad manners and getting beating every time to
death.(21,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass) 1: 0: 0:
They were working as craftsman in shops or stores.(Eric
Foner,146)1: They blend with the white society and learn their
language and realign. (148, Eric Foner ) 2: They get punish by
the master every time they tried to escape. (92, Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass)1: 0: They were employed in a dairy
to help their boss. (Eric Foner,142)1: Slave were seeking for his
or her rights and liberty. therefore, women; since they were
operating as maid; they tried to poisons their owner.(79,
Deborah Gray White)2: They got separated from their family
wither a son, brother, a husband, or father. (43,Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass) 2: 0: 0: Along with working as
privet workers to people, they were working at the port to lead
and unload products form the ship. (Eric Foner,146)1: They
thought that they might influence people for revolution by
performing some action like singing. (167, Deborah Gray
White) 2: The masters had them do the most risky work because
they thought that their life is worthless. (65, Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass) 1: 0: They worked as personal
worker for their owner (Eric Foner,142)1: while their owner
not around, Women were trying to give food to slaves. (155,

5. Deborah Gray White) 2: The owner did not offer any kind of
medicine or a cure for them whenever they get hurt or sick.
(166, Deborah Gray White)
Jassim Alajmi
HIST 172
Jane Dabel
January 16, 2018
Slavery in The Nineteenth Century
Different Experience Between Male and Female Slave
“There shall be no slave in your home, male or female:
least of all mother of your son.” Is very well-known quote by
Franz Grillparzer which trying to influence to not owen or have
people as slave and not to treat them like that. In the nineteenth
century, people were importing African people from their home

6. and use them as slave and to do works that white people think
that they shall not be doing. Furthermore, they were importing
women slave as well and they have been using them in many
ways differ than the male slave. Slaves have been treated in
different ways, working in diverse workplaces, and protested in
different way all depending on their sexes. Even though both
men and women sometime endured slavery in similar way, yet
there are inherent differences in how the sexes experienced
slavery, for the reason that women and men frequently did
different kind of labor, rebelled with different methods, and
faced different forms of abuse or punishment.
Once slaves arrive to white people territory, they should
expect that they are going to work in all possible workplaces
and all type of weathers; the hard one or the easy one. For male
slaves in the nineteenth century they were working in farms.
People in the past were very focusing in their farms because
they were their main source of food; therefor, they needed
hands to work on it. This is where the male salves played the
main roll in. Farms were the people main economic in that time,
so they were very important for them to work on them and make
them bigger with diverse products. In addition, male slaves
were working as craftsman in shops or stores. People needed
hands to work in their shops while they do other things or rest
at home, so the Africans were used to work in the artisan shops.
Beside working as privet workers to some people, male salves
worked in the port to load and unload goods form ships. They
had been in jobs where they required muscles because loading
and unloading ships required a lot of effort.[footnoteRef:1] [1:
Eric Foner, Give me Liberty! An American History, vol. 2,
(New York: W.W.Norton &Company, 1999) ,146]
On the other hand, women slaves were working in jobs that
differ from male. They were working as a cooker whether for
the family that owns them or for the privet owner. Additionally,
women slaves were employed in a dairy to help their master in
many ways. They were as permanent maid for the owner and do

7. all works instead of them and deal with the animals and then
give the products to the owner. Also, they worked as personal
worker for their master. For instance, they were doing all the
cleaning, shopping, and organizing for the master and following
them wherever they go and help them whenever they
want.[footnoteRef:2] [2: Foner,142]
When it comes to treat people unfairly and use them as
slave just because of their appearance, people will try to rebel
against the unjust people. Male salve had many ways to rebel,
such as tending to use their muscles and involve in a fight
seeking for a rebellion. Men in general will try something that
involve being tough and using their muscles to fight the unjust
people and seek for revenge[footnoteRef:3]. Moreover, there
were a smarter way for rebellion that men slaves used which is
merging with the white society and learn their language and
religion. This tactic was very good where the white people
understood that they are all the same and they should be treated
equally because African will spoke the same language and
practiced the same religion and that will make them close to
each other and make them feel like one big
family.[footnoteRef:4] Nevertheless, they used a way that might
affected people soul and make them think seriously about
rebellion which is singing. Singing is a very good way to
encourage people to do some sort of action like rebel against the
unfair people. Songs could engage people brain and deep
emotions, and people usually translate that emotion into
action.[footnoteRef:5] [3: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass Mineola, NY:(Dov Publications,
1845), 62] [4: Foner, 148] [5: Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a
Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, W. W. Norton
& Company; 1 edition (February 17, 1999), 167]
Alternatively, female slaves were more like the inside
people to form a rebellion. Women started to engage with white
people. Women started to engage with white people and created

8. a family with them. This way was to stop white people from
treating them like slave and instead starting to treat them like a
family[footnoteRef:6]. It was very effective because nowadays
there is a lot of white and black couples. Furthermore, Slaves
were seeking for their rights and liberty. therefore, women;
since they were working as maid; they tried to poison their
owner. This is more like a tough way to rebel because it involve
killing people, and being carful because if they got caught they
will be in a big trouble, so people won’t do it unless it is very
necessary[footnoteRef:7]. Moreover, women slaves were trying
to help their race and support them in their rebellion. Women
were trying to give food to slaves while their owner not around
in order to keep them healthy and strong. Rebellion was only
because salves were seeking for some revenge and justices
because white people were treating them very badly and
punching and abusing them. [footnoteRef:8] [6: Foner, 148]
[7: White, 79] [8: White, 155]
People in the nineteenth century were treating their slaves
very bad especially if they did some thing wrong. For male
slaves, they had been ordered by the owner to work all seasons
and under all the circumstances. Whether it was hot or cold,
windy or humid, and in the morning or in the evening. They had
been humiliated by the master and their orders[footnoteRef:9].
Also, when the male salves get tired of their master, they tried
to think of a solution and the only solution was escaping.
However, it wasn’t good idea because if they got busted they
will face some savage penalties and
humiliation[footnoteRef:10]. The other kind of punishment was
in their workplace. They had them do the riskiest works because
they thought that their life was not worthy. The white people
were thinking that the African people were created just to work
for them and their lives weren’t worthy for anything else not
even living like a normal human being.[footnoteRef:11] [9:
Douglass, 55] [10: Douglass, 92] [11: Douglass, 65]

9. On the contrary, female slaves were as much abuse and punish
as the male slaves in the nineteenth century. They were treated
in very bad manners and sometime got beaten to death.
Sometime for a reason and sometime without[footnoteRef:12].
Once female slaves died, white people did not respect their
bodies and neither bury it nor grave it. In addition, female
slaves were treated like animals where they were separated from
their family, whether a son, father, or a brother. They were
really getting a savage treating[footnoteRef:13]. Additionally,
as normal human being, people get sick sometime because of
many reasons whether not eating well, food poisons, and
weather changes. The master did not provide any kind of
medicine or a cure for them when they get hurt or sick. When
female salves get pregnant, they did not get the care that they
needed, and the master did not take care of them and did not
waste any money on them just because they thought they are not
worthy.[footnoteRef:14] [12: Douglass, 21] [13: Douglass,
43] [14: White, 166]
In conclusion, even though men and women slaves were
brought for one main reason which is to serve people, there
sexes affect their lifestyle, because women and men were force
to different type of labor, and faced different forms of abuse or
punishment that lead to rebelled in different ways. Men slaves
labor was most likely outdoor where women slaves was indoor.
They were treated differently based on their sexes and force to
do different type of works. Also, they rebelled by different
methods, where male slave tried using their muscles, singing
and blending with the society. On the other hand, women tried
to poison their master, getting married, and helping African
people by feeding them while their master not around. Male and
female slaves were punished by their masters. Male slaves have
been ordered to work under all the circumstances and female
slaves were separated from their family. People around the
world should think very deeply about the idea of the slavery so
they can understand how bad it is to make a human being as

10. slave. People should have educated themselves and be more
civilized and avoid action like have a slave and torturing them
like they Owen them. People do not get to Owen other people
because they were born with different shapes and color, but they
are all equal and should be treated equally.
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