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This 5 page paper discusses questions about James Henry Hammond and his slaves on the Silver Bluff plantation. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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readings to answer questions about the relationships among slaves, and between slaves and their master, on the Silver Bluff plantation before the Civil War. Questions 1) How does this article
describe an unusual management/labor situation from the onset of the respective relationship? The situation at the Silver Bluff plantation was unusual because the slave owner, James Henry Hammond, had never
before owned slaves. Now, upon the occasion of his marriage, he also became the master of a large plantation as well as the owner of 147 slaves, and he had
no idea of how to manage them. He sensed immediately that the slaves had some sort of "system" that he did not understand, and so the relationship between him and
his bondsmen became an ongoing struggle. 2) How does Hammond deal with the slaves religious services and what was the outcome? Hammond believed that to control his slaves he
had to control their very souls, and so he abolished Negro churches and discouraged any form of worship he didnt approve of or run himself. He finally established a Methodist
Church on the plantation in which apparently both whites and slaves attended services. However, despite this, Hammond felt that the slaves obeyed his orders only on the outside. Inwardly, they
retained a spirit of independent belief and worship. 3) How does the work pattern resemble that of the religious arrangements? Again, Hammond tried to impose his system over one that
already existed among the slaves. They preferred to do task work, which meant that when the task was finished they were done for the day. This sometimes meant that the
slaves would finish in the middle of the afternoon, and then have the remaining hours to themselves. These period were unsupervised, and made Hammond uneasy. He wanted the slaves to
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