What did the slaves in the southern colonies eat?

Answer 1

Most often, the slaves ate no food at all, or just enough to keep them alive.
The captives were fed beans, corn, yams, rice and palm oil.Slaves were fed one meal a day with water, but if food was scarce, slaveholders would get priority over the slaves.

Answer 2

The slaves that inhabited the southern colonies ate what the slave owners did not want. This included pieces of meat that the slave owner deemed inedible. Slaves also ate hushpuppies and grits.

Answer 3

They ate lima beans, bread, beans and very little else....

Answer 4

There are not many things that a slave was allowed to eat on a plantation. Slaves ate stale food like bread.

Answer 5

They ate corn bread and milk, well better then what the slave owners ate. so bread fruit, vegetables, milk

Answer 6

it depends what kind of slaves

if they were African Americans it would be soul food

Answer 7

Salt herring, Pork and Cornmeal

(Source: Oracle)

Answer 8

They ate bread, pork and corn but it was mostly stale food like bread.