Slaves sang while they were working in the fields to pass the time away. Usually they would sing about home or family, and sometimes a song that they would sing would be a coded message.
so that they could know if a slave was or was not there, or to see if they were eating the things they may have been picking.
Slaves in the field used to sing to make time pass by and keep their spirts up.The kind of songs they sang were spiritual songs that helped them feel more relaxed and to keep them to the rhythm without getting tired and sleeping.
The African slaves contributed largely to jazz. This is a music that the African slaves and their ancestors brought and developed from their native land.
Spirituals were often sung by slaves.
no they didn't
Working the cotton fields. Playing servant to the "White Man".
cooking, cleaning, picking cotton, working on farm , sewing, plantation work
are you stupid? they were slaves they where picking cotton during blizzards great grand daughter of a slave
They were working in the house for white people and they would take care of kids cook and clean and do laundry and stuff like that.
Yes, they did. They were slaves and considered property so they were put to work at various jobs. Slave women would often have their babies while working in the fields and then keep working.
pull cotton out of the fields
Plantation owners had slaves picking and seperating cotton with their bare hands.
Many slaves were needed for picking all of the cotton that was in the planters property.
Cotton fields is what lead more slaves. The more the slaves the easy it was to work. The cotton gin
In the cotton fields and farms In the cotton fields and farms
Cotton is currently picked by machine. They used to have slaves pick the cotton in the south by hand. You seem to have forgotton the people (both white & black) that picked cotton after the slaves & before the cotton picking machines.
The south had to have slaves to work the cotton and rice fields ,it was solely for profit.