They basically did the labor. For example, on a cotton plantation, they went out and picked and harvested all the cotton. Some, mostly women, worked in the master's (owner of the plantation) house. Even children, once they were able to, worked in the fields.
The plantation system worked as a mass production system in agriculture. Established settlements in the Americas divided the land up under private ownership. Slaves worked as free laborers from dawn to dusk. Women and men had to work the same amount of hours and pregnant women were required to work until delivering their child.
The slaves mainly worked on the plantations. They commonly did farming work and they were subjected to hard work with poor living conditions.
They knew how to grow crops and raise cattle
A. The importation of African Slaves.
Sugar, rum, molasses. These were important in the triangular trade where we traded flour and fish and other things like cloth for slaves and we traded the slaves for the sugar and rum and molasses.
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slaves were brought to brazil because when the portuguese setled on the east coasts of brazil, they discoverd sugar. They then made sugar plantations on the land. They began to import african slaves to work in the sugar plantations
C.They put it back into their plantations and bought slaves.
They brought their slaves and ideas for plantations.
Slaves on plantations were controlled through physical abuse, threats of punishment, and the enforcement of strict rules by overseers or plantation owners. Slaves were also subjected to forced labor, restricted movement, and denied basic rights to maintain control and prevent rebellion. Additionally, the legal system and cultural norms of the time supported the institution of slavery, further reinforcing control over slaves.
slaves
Many were brought from Africa and sold at slave auctions. Others were born to slaves already on the plantations.
They brought their slaves and ideas for plantations.
The field work on Southern plantations was done almost exclusively by slaves. These plantations often consisted of cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco and were very labor intensive.
Slaves who worked in the home generally had better living conditions, access to better food, and sometimes received special treatment from their owners compared to those who worked in the fields. However, they were still subject to the same brutal treatment and lack of freedom experienced by all slaves.
they worked on plantations
They were called plantations
this was a form of irony because the plantations were well taken care of unlike the slaves
The slaves tried to resist the northern soldiers descending upon their plantations.