(Wk 9a) Black Slaves Living Conditions.

When the black slaves arrived to America they were forced to live in very hard conditions.

They had to live in small houses of only a single communal room were all the slaves of the hacienda lived “sobre sus estrechos espacios se arracimaban hombres, mujeres y niños formando una comunidad de gentes sanas y enfermas” ( Colombia:imagenes de su diversidad pg 93)

After a while of this way of living the slaves were forced into, the church decided to appeal for them and prohibit the illegal unions of slaves, which meant that if two slaves were married they got a very small house of their own. But the single slaves weren’t allowed to have relationships.

Regardless, all these slaves were forced to do hard work for long periods of time without the appropriate alimentation, which made most of them ill and as they all lived together in the ranches the infections and illnesses spread rapidly among the whole colonies of slaves. Although, the sick slaves didn’t only suffer from viruses, they also suffered from hernias, mutilations, fractures and craziness due to hard work. Which wasn’t only given among men but also in the women and children, and when any of this was the case of a slave, the master’s steel forced him or her to work without receiving any special treatment or medication.