Slavery-Coal Miners, Life in a Patch, Amend Works, Pa.

This is about life of coal miners. Their living conditions in a coal mining patch where life was very rough. The constant danger of flooding, explosions or cave ins. Their life is no different than the life of slaves. As a slave you were bought and you had to work for your master, but you were provided a house or living quarters, food, clothing, medicine and on weekends on bigger plantations they would have dancing, on Sundays they would have church services. In a coal mining town your mast...