You can see by the picture that President Davis's slaves each had their own homes that they could care for during their leisure time.
Each slaveholder was different, so there were variations from slaveholder to slaveholder, but these are typical living conditions of slaves throughout the south. The stories of the cruel slavemaster was the exception, not the rule.
According to Ms. Teresa Roane, Archivist for United Daughters of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis had a judicial system on his plantation. If one of the servants committed an offense, a judge and jury were made of up his peers. This is just one more fact that has been hidden from you. You see? You've been lied to....
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