Summary: Peculiar Institutions

What was slavery? Slavery, another way it was called was the " Peculiar Institutions" was an everyday life routine in The South. Slavery was people of bottom class with no money, besides that people of upper class would own them they would purchase them and make them work in their cotton business. Slaves would not get paid because they were working they would just work because they were forced to not because they wanted too and would get treated very cruelly like they were a piece of garbage worth nothing. Slaves didn't do anything wrong to deserve like their being treated and owned.

How was slave life, well slave lives were bad they honestly almost didn't have any life on the way they lived. Their family life. The male in the family would get separated from their wife and children which was sad. It states on page 433 that marriage ceremonies include the phrase "until death or separation do us apart". This quote above supports my answer because it talks about how the only two ways they could be separated is death or get sold to another owner. Slaved people with families
Slaves fought back for their rights. There were many ways for them to fight back they had a lot of reasons. One way was that they pretended they didn't know how to use the tools or pretended not to understand the instructions they were given. They will burn down building break tools to fight back and not do work. Another way they fought back was by rebellion, but it was not a very common way for slaves to fight back, but when they did they will ''only the Stono Rebellion and Nat Turner's Rebellion achieved any success; white Southerners managed to derail the other planned rebellions before any attack could take place'' (https://www.thoughtco.com/ways-slaves-showed-resistance-to-slavery-45401). I got one more it was that they pretended to be ill to get out of working. They would try their best to fight back even though they had very little