Slaves were used for growing crops like indigo, grain, rice, or vegetables, also they were used to do chores (cleaning house, cook for owners but get scraps for themselves, and fetch the water) that many owners couldn't or didn't want to do.
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Those states didn't have slaves.
The state that did not free the slaves was Delaware. Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri did not free slaves either.
Slaves had to cross the Delaware River to reach the state of Delaware. The river served as a natural barrier between the free states in the north and the slave states in the south.
delaware
Yes, colonial Delaware was a slave-holding colony. Slavery was legal and practiced in Delaware from the early colonial period until the end of the Civil War. The economy of the colony relied on slave labor for industries such as agriculture and shipbuilding.
Field Work & House Hold Work.
Slaves in Delaware worked primarily on farms and in domestic service. Many were also employed in industries such as shipbuilding, lumber mills, and iron works.
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
No. Tennessee was.
Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.
When the colonists first settled in what is now Delaware most of them came as English indentured servants, of course later on there were African slaves. In the early 1800's the majority of the African population in Delaware were free, though there was not any official legislature declaring them free. Delaware remained in the Union during the Civil War. In 1861 Abraham Lincoln pushed for the remaining slave holders to be compensated in return of the freedom of the slaves, at the time there were less than 1,800 slaves in Delaware (mostly in Sussex county) and in 1862 slavery was declared unlawful in all U.S. territories