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👞 👞 SLAVE NARRATIVES 👞SLAVE NARRATIVES 👞
MIKE PASCAL, MATT MIKE PASCAL, MATT COCORIKIS & MIKE HADDADCOCORIKIS & MIKE HADDAD
Captivity Phase
•Sarah Frances Graves
•Worked in the fields (Planting and Harvesting)
•Was whipped with cat-o-nine tails
•Had to prepare her own meals
Sarah was never sold herself in a slave auction, but recalls her
mothers stories of being allotted to a white man named Jimmie
Graves. Allotted is another word for rented out.
Sarah and her mother were moved to
Mississippi at the age of six months because her mother was allotted to
Jimmie Graves.
Sarah remembers her living quarters as well
kept, but small and uncomfortable. Her
family had to prepare their own meals at
night after long days of working on the fields.
Beds were uncomfortable and
usually made of wood and grass.
Sarah recalls her sleeping arrangements as wooden boxes filled with straw. She lived in the same cabin all her
life with her mother and father, who was sick and could not
work.
Sarah Frances Grave was often beaten as slave by her master named Shaw. She admits that
sometimes she deserved the beatings, but other times she was beaten for the faults of the
masters children.
Rebellion Phase
• Nathaniel Turner
• Was a slave under his white masters
• Led the Nat Turner Rebellion
• Caused Southern whites to tighten grip and control on their black slaves
Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800. In 1821, Turner ran
away from his overseer, returning after 30 days because of a vision in which the Spirit had told him to "return to the service
of my earthly master."
Nat Turner had two more visions
leading him to believe he was
being held responsible and had to kill the white men to
defend the black people's spirits.
In 1831, Nat Turner led a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner and a group of his followers killed sixty white men, women, and children on the
night of August 21. Turner and sixteen of his conspirators were captured and
executed.
Freedom Phase
• Sarah Frances Graves (continued)
• Freed in 1863, but heard so much about slavery coming back that they stayed with the Crowdes' two years longer or until 1865 when they were sure that they were freed.
Sarah and her mother had fifty cents when they were freed in
1865. They lived two miles north of their former masters.
Sarah went to school near Burlington Jet., Missouri,
and she went to school two winters a little while, but
never for a full year.
Sarah had to work and when the
busiest time was over, she would go
to school.
Sarah married Joe H. Graves. The couple had one son, Azra Alexander
Graves. Sarah lived on the same piece of land for as
long as she can remember. They now have 120 acres
on their property and Sarah belongs to the
African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Works Cited
• "The Nat Turner Rebellion." The Nat Turner Rebellion. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Feb. 2013. <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6811/>
• "Nat Turner Rebellion." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 07 Feb. 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html>
• "Sarah Graves." Civil War Narratives. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Feb. 2013. <http://www.civil-war.net/narrativedata/sarah_frances_shaw_graves.pdf>.