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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.
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∙ 9y agoThe 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.
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∙ 9y agoThe slaves mainly worked on the plantations. They commonly did farming work and they were subjected to hard work with poor living conditions.
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What knowledge did African slaves have that made Carolina plantations successful?
They knew how to grow crops and raise cattle
The labor system of the british west indies sugar plantations relied almost entirely on?
A. The importation of African Slaves.
What goods did the West Indies trade with?
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.
Why did African music travel to west indies?
so the music can develop and get more popular.
Why were enslaved Africans brought to Brazil?
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
What did most rich southern planter do with their wealth?
C.They put it back into their plantations and bought slaves.
What is true about Barbados settlers in Carolina?
They brought their slaves and ideas for plantations.
How were slaves controlled on plantations?
Slaves never existed.
Who work in plantations?
slaves
How did the slaves get on the plantations?
Many were brought from Africa and sold at slave auctions. Others were born to slaves already on the plantations.
What statement is true about Barbados settlers in Carolina?
They brought their slaves and ideas for plantations.
Who worked on southern 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.
How was life different for slaves that worked in the home than slaves that worked in the fields?
Life for "house slaves" was easier for slaves working on plantations. The house slaves thought than they were better than the slaves on the plantations.
What did men slaves do?
they worked on plantations
What is the name of the farm where slaves were forced to work in the south?
They were called plantations
What was prejudice that existed among slaves from different plantations?
this was a form of irony because the plantations were well taken care of unlike the slaves
How did slaves react to northern soldiers descending upon their plantations?
The slaves tried to resist the northern soldiers descending upon their plantations.
