Living Conditons.....

After working long and hard for there master, African Americans known as slaves had to go to a place where they thought was home. They had went to there cabins that was dirty and very uncomfortable to be at. They had dirty was floors, walls, provided for slaves usually consisted of wooden shacks. They were built to house two families, some had partitions, while others had none. When there were no partitions each family would fit up its own part as it could. Sometimes they got old boards and nailed them up, stuffing the cracks with rags and when they could not get boards they hung up old clothes. In some single rooms they were huddled, like cattle, ten or a dozen people, men, women, and children. There beds were collections of straw and old rags, thrown down in the corners and boxed in with boards with a single blanket as the only covering. When men and women increased the children, they all slept together. As one got married, they part off to another cabin, but the rest would have to remain with their mother and father.