My Life In The South Analysis

As early as the 1700s slaves were common and essential in the United States; usually working in Plantation farms growing Tobacco under the ownership and scrutiny of the plantation owners. To many this was a time of much cruelness towards slaves, giving much punishments on top of their long hard labor from their masters and sometimes watchers. Even slave children were not the exception from this and often time grew up under slavery from when they were born. In a section from Jacob Stroyer’s autobiography “My life in the South”, he describes how it was like growing up under slavery from a young age. His narrative does very well in providing the audience with an understanding into his mind's perspective in the life of slave society and to reveal the harsh reality and affect of slavery through the account of his life on a plantation in South Carolina. Stoyer starts his account by writing about how slave children were impacted by slave society through the example of a fellow negro boy who worked in the same plantation as him. He writes how the young boy would take other young slave children and force them to srtip off their clothes so he could whip them. Through his account he tries to show the effect slave society had on children to the point that even some young children growing up under slavery would imitate the

There was no room for mistake at all and any little mishap is almost always followed by painful and harsh punishments of whipping or beating. Stroyer’s accounts some of the beatings and whippings he had received from his master with often times having been there no reason. Through his personal account of punishments he received as a child it really shows that there were some slave owners who would find amusement from harming their slaves even if it be for no reason and connects back to how some slave children would witness and copy attitude towards the other