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olden days
Life back in the olden days
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Elite/Jobs/Occupation | Planters-owned at least 20 slaves-grew and sold crops(cotton, rice and indigo)-political leaders |
| Elite/Education | Private tudors-Private schools |
| Elite/Homes | very fancy-large plantations homes-lots of land-well decorated |
| MIddle Class/Jobs/Occupation | Merchants (buys and sells goods)-shop keepers-physicians (doctors)-attorneys (lawyers)-owned a few slaves-(not rich but had enough money to live comfortably) |
| Middle Class/Education | children were taught to read and write |
| Middle Class/Homes | most lived in cities and towns |
| Lower Class/Jobs/Occupation | very few jobs (unskilled) |
| Lower Class/Education | under-educated |
| Lower Class/Homes | squatted on other people's land to live and farm |
| Independent Farmer/Jobs/Occupation | owned small amount of land and worked it himself-worked hard to row and harvest crops such as tobacco and cotton |
| Independent Farmer/Education | educated at home sometimes |
| Independent Farmer/Homes | small, wooded, not many rooms |
| Free African Americans/Jobs/Occupation | skill-specific job(carpentry, artisians, music making, tailors, barbers, butchers, bakers-owned independent farms |
| Free African Americans/Education | might be taught to read and write at home, but there were no public schools for them |
| Free African Americans/Homes | Small wooded houses, maybe two or three rooms |
| Enslaved African Americans/Jobs/Occupation | worked in fields of masters house-Field workers worked long hours tending to crops on plantations-they also worked as carpenters and blacksmiths |
| Enslaved African Americans/Education | Illegal for them to learn to read and write |
| Enslaved African Americans/Homes | One room slave cabin |