What Was Christmas Like for America's Enslaved People?

[Butterflylady]

1. I am in the process of reading a good number of books

About slavery. A few that were authored by slaves themselves, such as Harriot Jacobs under the name of Linda Brent. I, in fact am rereading her story. Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington have also recorded their stories that give the reader heart rendering stories.

Yes, the holidays were a time of joy for the enslaved in 1700s and the 1800s. But then again it was an agonizing time for they knew how the time would end on New Years day. The enslaved in the northern slave states were weary of being sold to southern slave states the treatment of slaves was much more horrendous. A lot of families were tore apart where mothers and fathers would have their children sold away to far off states never to be seen or heard from again. Heartbreaking to say the least.

Another good read are books about the UGRR better known as the Underground Railroad that led to the fame of Harriot Tubman. I have a now a much needed lesson about that time.