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Question | Answer |
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offtime | time they had off |
What did the slaves do with thier land? | they grew grops and had live stock |
How could slaves get a day off? | work double time |
2 task holiday | doubled work |
weekend pass | could leave for the weekend |
When slaves left the farm what did they have to get before ruturning? | thier ticket singed |
courting | dating |
On sundays was there always church? | no |
What did they doon sunday? | went to owners house and had foot races, hourse races, hunt and fish |
On christmas how many days did they have off? | 3 |
what did they do on christmas? | went singing |
piaza | large porch |
Were weddings common around christmas? | yes |
What was the mixture of slaves religoin? | chritianity,african belives,voodo |
did slaves have stronge belives in after death? | yess |
conjures | medician man, cast spells and curses |
Did slaves belive in ghosts? | yes |
a haunt | spirit of the dead to trouble the living |
the hagg | disimbodied from a witch who sheds her skin adnd rides people at night |
plat-eye | shape changing spirit |
religious meetings | very long and very lively |
did the owners want the slaves to read the bible? | no |
What wzaS the main way of communicating? | storey telling |
trickster tales | not just for entertain ment, describes the slaves world and to educate and inspire the little slaves,teach how to behave |
What were the most common trickster tale deal with? | animals are given person characturistics |
In TT what were the small and weak? | smart and sly and get the best of the bigger ones |
Was the trickster ever tricked? | yes |
IN TT was in the main focus? | food and the trickster punish ment |
Slave john tales | john against omasa,shows how the slave owners fortins ties together |
Do slve rales begin like fairy tales? | yes |
What did slave storeys point out? | how things were suppose to be |
What did slaves think their owners were | thiefes |
What did the ownerzs think of the slaves? | ingnorant,care free,child like |
Gullah | own languege not being poorly taught how to speak |
What were inportant in gullah? | tones,spoken not writen, different for today gullah |
GULLAH PORNOUNS | 'e= he ,it , she |
gullah plurals | 'em=them |
Where pronouns more complex than verbs? | yes |
pidgin | a second languge for two or more groups of people who speak different languges |
creole | a pidgin languegs passed on to a second generation as thier native languege |
When you start to write gullah does it become more complex? | YES, becomes closer and closer to english |
naming children | the power to name children means you own them |