- As a family member if you were a girl you either got married or were sent out to work as a wet nurse, servant, weaver,baker,musician, or a dancer.
- If you were a boy you would be sent out even if you were married, if you wanted to be a soilder you'll be working in a fort.
- If you were a boy you would start of by cleaning the soilders' weapons.
- Some people sold themselves and their own children into slavery because it was the only way they could pay off their debts.
- Pretty much children had to work hard if they wanted to eat.
The white men would say, " 'you shall not spare your body when you are young;food comes about by the hands, provision by the feet'. "
