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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.
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What was the agreement between planters and newly freed slaves?
After the Civil War, planters offered freed slaves work in exchange for a small portion of the crops they grew on the plantations. This system, known as sharecropping, allowed former slaves to live on and work the land, but often resulted in debt and continued economic hardships for many.
How did planters physically punish slaves on a Caribbean plantation?
Planters in the Caribbean used various physical punishments on slaves, including whipping, branding, and use of instruments like the bullwhip or cat-o'-nine-tails. Slaves could also be subjected to harsh labor, confinement in stocks or dungeons, and even amputation in extreme cases as a form of punishment.
How many slaves did William Ellison have in south?
William Ellison, a Black slaveholder in South Carolina, had 63 slaves in 1860 according to the census records. He was one of the wealthiest Black planters in the South during that time.
What did they call the people who bought slaves?
Slave owners were generally referred to as masters or planters.
How were slaves rewarded?
Slaves were typically not rewarded as they were considered the property of their owners and forced to work without compensation. Their labor was often exploited for the benefit of their enslavers without any form of recompense.
How do slaves earn money?
they were able to earn a steady income for themselves through the provision grounds that were handed to them by their enslavers. Planters did this because they didn't want the responsibility of constantly having to provide for the slaves. The slaves practiced subsistent farming and the excess produce they reaped were sold in the Sunday\Saturday market
What did the planters kids do on the plantation?
they slept with the slaves and had babies.
Descendants of European planters and African slaves are called what?
Descendants of European planters and African slaves are often referred to as Creoles in some regions such as the Caribbean and Louisiana.
How did the planters in the spanish West Indies treat their slaves?
Crappy.
What did the white planters in the South sometimes oppose Baptist preaching?
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.
Some planters treated their slaves well because?
they understood that their financial success depended on the survival of the slaves.
Many planters took care of their slaves' most basic needs because?
slaves were valuable property
Did planters support slavery?
Yes planters supported slavery. They did so because slaves were free labor and they needed them to work the fields.
Southern planters considered their slaves to be?
A) children who required constant supervsion
A common calculation between planters and farmers was a planter owned?
twenty slaves.
What did rich southern planters do with their wealth?
they put it back into their plantations and bought slaves.
What was the significance of the Twenty Negro Law?
Probably the most significant part of the law was that it exempted one white male from confederate service per plantation of twenty or more slaves. Already a war that was, for the most part, to benefit the rich white planters, the twenty negro further promoted the division of classes in the south. In effect, the poor white yeomen were fighting for the benefit of planters who, themselves, did not have to fight.
