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| 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 |