Plantations are very big farms and range from 50 acres to 500 acres. The colonist were needed to harvest or plant the crops. They were also needed to take care of the people who owned the plantations. They had to make beds, and things like that. The slaves were needed badly and they were treated poorly.
they slept with the slaves and had babies.
Descendants of European planters and African slaves are often referred to as Creoles in some regions such as the Caribbean and Louisiana.
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Many slaves were Baptists, and a lot of Baptist preachers spoke out against slavery. The white planters needed those slaves to work for them, so often times the planters were opposed to Baptist preaching.
Provision grounds allowed slaves to supplement their meager diets with fresh produce they could grow themselves, providing important nutrients and variety. For planters, provision grounds reduced the costs of feeding slaves, as well as providing a form of indirect compensation that could help improve morale and productivity among the enslaved workforce.
they understood that their financial success depended on the survival of the slaves.
slaves were valuable property
Yes planters supported slavery. They did so because slaves were free labor and they needed them to work the fields.
A) children who required constant supervsion
twenty slaves.
they put it back into their plantations and bought slaves.
Rich white plantation owners and they're control of slaves and cotton.