| Question |
Answer |
| offtime |
time they had off |
| What did the slaves do with thier land? |
they grew grops and had live stock |
| How could slaves get a day off? |
work double time |
| 2 task holiday |
doubled work |
| weekend pass |
could leave for the weekend |
| When slaves left the farm what did they have to get before ruturning? |
thier ticket singed |
| courting |
dating |
| On sundays was there always church? |
no |
| What did they doon sunday? |
went to owners house and had foot races, hourse races, hunt and fish |
| On christmas how many days did they have off? |
3 |
| what did they do on christmas? |
went singing |
| piaza |
large porch |
| Were weddings common around christmas? |
yes |
| What was the mixture of slaves religoin? |
chritianity,african belives,voodo |
| did slaves have stronge belives in after death? |
yess |
| conjures |
medician man, cast spells and curses |
| Did slaves belive in ghosts? |
yes |
| a haunt |
spirit of the dead to trouble the living |
| the hagg |
disimbodied from a witch who sheds her skin adnd rides people at night |
| plat-eye |
shape changing spirit |
| religious meetings |
very long and very lively |
| did the owners want the slaves to read the bible? |
no |
| What wzaS the main way of communicating? |
storey telling |
| trickster tales |
not just for entertain ment, describes the slaves world and to educate and inspire the little slaves,teach how to behave |
| What were the most common trickster tale deal with? |
animals are given person characturistics |
| In TT what were the small and weak? |
smart and sly and get the best of the bigger ones |
| Was the trickster ever tricked? |
yes |
| IN TT was in the main focus? |
food and the trickster punish ment |
| Slave john tales |
john against omasa,shows how the slave owners fortins ties together |
| Do slve rales begin like fairy tales? |
yes |
| What did slave storeys point out? |
how things were suppose to be |
| What did slaves think their owners were |
thiefes |
| What did the ownerzs think of the slaves? |
ingnorant,care free,child like |
| Gullah |
own languege not being poorly taught how to speak |
| What were inportant in gullah? |
tones,spoken not writen, different for today gullah |
| GULLAH PORNOUNS |
'e= he ,it , she |
| gullah plurals |
'em=them |
| Where pronouns more complex than verbs? |
yes |
| pidgin |
a second languge for two or more groups of people who speak different languges |
| creole |
a pidgin languegs passed on to a second generation as thier native languege |
| When you start to write gullah does it become more complex? |
YES, becomes closer and closer to english |
| naming children |
the power to name children means you own them |
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