1. slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture 2. work for a small farm owner who was not doing well could mean not being fed 3. Slaves who worked inside the plantation homes often had better living and working conditions than slaves who worked in the fields. 4. slaves worked ten or more hours a day, "from day clean to first dark, 5. Life on large plantations
Polk campaigned under the popular slogan "54-40 or fight," a contention that the southern boundary of Russian America was the northern boundary of Oregon
