Slaves were look upon as
property. They had no rights. They would
work on the fields from sunrise to sunset.
Sometimes they would also work cleaning houses and doing other chores. The frightening aspect of being a slave is
that you are at the mercy of your master. If he is kind then you are lucky but
there is still a possibility of cruel punishment. Many slaves were whipped and some slave
families were broken apart to be sold as property to someone else. It was not a good life.
The significance of Turkey, Catal Huyuk is that it was one of the earliest farming settlements ever found. Catal Huyuk is located in southern Anatolia. Their food production was via agriculture. Catal Huyuk has been determined by archaeological findings to be one of the oldest cities in the world. It was inhabited approximately 7500 BCE.
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Rail road construction crews were not only subjected to extreme weather conditions, they had to lay tracks across and through many natural geographic features
This song was originally published as "O! Let My People Go: The Song of the Contrabands.
