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Before the end of the US Civil War, slaves in the US Southern States worked primarily on large plantations. The so-called American South was basically an agriculturally based society. Due to economy of size, the most efficent plantations were large and produced among other products cotton and tobacco. Slaves were trained to do perform many of the jobs listed below:

1. Field workers to sow and harvest the crops of the plantation;

2. Perform work related to the livestock on the plantation; and

3. Perform domestic duties for the households of their owners.

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