By studying the skeletons, scientists discovered that the slaves of New York suffered from poor nutrition, disease, and years of backbreaking labor. Historians recently discovered the remains of slaves found in the African Burial Ground near today’s City Hall in New York City. As an adult, she denounced slavery, as did her husband, John Adams, the second President of the United States. Abigail Smith Adams, a Congregational minister’s daughter, grew up outside Boston in a household that owned two slaves, Tom and Pheby. Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity. In most cities, slaveholdings were small, usually one or two slaves who slept in the attic or cellar of the slave owner’s home. Plantation-based slavery was more common in the South, where hundreds of slaves could be owned by the same person and forced to work in tobacco, indigo, or rice fields.
Rhode Island and Connecticut had a few large farms, where twenty or thirty slaves would live and work.
Thats where Momma was now, wailing at the waters edge. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. Thats why Africans got trapped in the Americas.
Momma said that ghosts couldnt move over water. “In the northern colonies, European Americans tended to own one or two slaves who worked on the family farm or were hired out. Laurie Halse Anderson, quote from Chains.
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