Woman, children, and men were forced to work all day long in the fields and some in homes. I. The 1830's cotton picking was populated. The cotton farm owner would live next to the cotton farms in which the slaves would pick the cotton and lived on small farms near the field as well.

Solomon Northrup

Life under slavery

A free African American slave from New York. He was the son of a woman colored woman who also was freed. He went on to own land in New York.