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What was the name of a marriage ritual practiced for slave weddings on plantations?
Also, what was the most common form of punishment for a slave? What was the term for a white man in slave dialect? If you could help me with these questions or any of them, that would be great! Thanks! :)
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- The slave marriage ritual was called jumping the broom Punisment Among all the punishments faced by enslaved women, whippings were the most common, or at least the most talked about. The whip used was made of plaited cow-skin. Some overseers report that it was so strong, that it could take the skin off horses back, or lay marks in a "deal board." At times women ran away to protest whippings or escape other mistreatment. Running away was looked at as a serious crime, and many slaves were punished in various ways. Some female slaves was punished so badly that they were left to die. An observer remembered "a woman lying down and groaning…her left side, where she had been most whipped appeared in a most mortifying state, and almost covered with worms." Slave owners and overseers also assaulted enslaved women with ebony brushes, which were known to be far worse than thorn brushes. The back of one slave woman in Jamaica, flogged with such a brush, was described as being taken off, down to her heels. Mathew, the famous nineteenth-century dispenser of justice, said that “the lash is the punishment of the slave.”
- This isn't exactly what you wanted, but I know that often times, slave marriages were rarely sanctioned. Their unions weren't recognized by law. Pretty horrible. A couple could be "together" but they could be sold off to the ends of the country disregarding "spouses." Check this out too: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B07E2DF153FE63BBC4851DFB166838D669FDE&oref=slogin
- To learn more about the origin of Jumping the Broom and its practice today, view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_broom. The most common term for a white man in slave dialect was "masta" or "master" depending on the location. Although, blacks owned slaves as well.
- LOL! are you taking american history??!! that's the exact question on the exam review!!!! :) nice lol..
