Life on plantationsMany plantations used African slaves for the hard labor, such as cotton, rice, indigo or tobacco.
they used slaves on Caribbean sugar plantations
Slaves from Africa were primarily used to cultivate cash crops such as sugar, tobacco, cotton, and rice on plantations in the Americas. They were also involved in mining, construction, and domestic work.
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Slaves were used for labor intensive jobs such as planting rice, or tobacco. They also were used for picking cotton. They did all kinds if farm work, they also did iron work. They were used as bed warmers. They basically did whatever their master told them to do.
Southern plantations used slaves.
They were used for farming the tobacco and wheat plantations.
The group of colonies that grew cash crops on plantations and used black slaves for farming were centralized. These colonies were in the south.
They were used to tell the other slaves how to escape from the plantations.
They were used for labor on farms and plantations and doing housework.
The Cheseapeake which is Maryland and Virginia produced Tobacco, they used the gang system which is working for a long period of time. North and South Carolina produced rice, they used the task system where the slaves are unsupervised.
Slaves used to work on cotton fields or big plantations and some used to work in their masters house as cooks and maids.