I am not sure but I do know they picked cotton plants made shirts did the laundry ( laundry wasn't a piece of cake! ) If they don't do their jobs they were most likely to be smacked. Poor slaves
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They did pretty much ALL the work!
Anything that had to be done around the house, on the farm and in the fields. Cooking, cleaning, sewing, washing, sowing, harvesting, plowing etc. etc. etc.
A refusal to do the work they were told to do, not only meant the risk of the master whipping them, but they could even be killed. The owner could do what ever he pleased with his slaves and if he thought one was not doing his job well, he could decide to sell him to another master and send him far away from his parents or wife and children!
Convicted prisoners
The majority of African slaves were sent to the Americas, particularly to regions in the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Southern United States, to work on plantations producing labor-intensive crops like sugar, tobacco, and cotton.
To work as slaves
The Arab states in North Africa traditionally traded in slaves. But, when the demand for African slaves to work on the cotton and sugar cane plantations in America arose, the demand for slaves increased.
tobacco
They'd work in the fields, farming or be used as sex slaves by their owners.
African slaves were brought to America to work for free and make a profit for their masters. They were also used to entertain, amuse and do whatever their master commanded them to do.
African slaves were brought to America to work for free and make a profit for their masters. They were also used to entertain, amuse and do whatever their master commanded them to do.
Black slavery in America began in 1619, when the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia to work on plantations of tobacco.
The slaves were brought over from Africa to work as slaves! so, all the blacks or coloured people living in America have relations coming from Africa, and their ancestors are African!
Tobacco! then later they done the cotton
Tobacco Fields