Aspects of Slavery and Freedom Seeking in North Carolina
Earth-The Life and Labor of Enslaved People in North Carolina
What changed for the Africans and the Native Americans captured for enslavement was how they were expected to live on the earth. Slavery forced a set of human relationships that altered the expectations of life and what was expected to happen on the earth. This chapter is broken into two parts and introduces readers to how enslaved people found a way to live and engage in labor on the earth in the state of North Carolina. This chapter presents an overview. In part one, this chapter peeks into how the life of the enslaved people was generally organized and looks into how enslaved people survived. Part two introduces readers to some of the tasks enslaved people performed on the earth that are not widely known, such as railroad work, gold mining, and iron working.