What did enslaved Africans do on the plantations?

Answer 1

Just about everything one could imagine except for positions that are normally thought of as powerful and respectable. They worked the fields, plowed planted and chopped cotton, took care of the vegetable gardens, grainery, etc. Did all the domestic work in the home including cooking, caring for children and serving all the family. Also,caring for the plantation owner's wife if she became ill.Took care of livestock, chopped wood, carried water, did the butchering of animals, and so on and so on.

Answer 2

answer #1) mostly picking and prossesing cotton but they also helped look after small children and served as maides.

answer #2) Slaves who worked on plantations were involved in farming. They mostly picked cotton in order for the North to create a mass production at the time of the Industrial Revolution and a lot of technical advances such as machinery were being built. The slaves had to endure hard labor for hours a day, farming in the sun and hot weather, with clothes that would have to last them for years due to the fact that they were only provided with a limited about of clothing in a time period.

answer #3) Slaves as you may know did not have any rights so they had owners and whatever the owners wanted or wanted them to do the slaves did. If the owner wanted a foot rub then the slaves would give it to them. If the owner wanted a nice feast. The slaves would have to give them a huge feast and if the slaves did not do a good job or come to the owner's satisfactory. The slaves could be wipped, electricuted, hung, or stabbed to death. Any way was a bad choice.

Answer 3

Planter is another name for Plantation Owner. The Plantation Owner, owned Slaves.

Answer 4

enslaved africans had to clean cotton and if not done right they would face harsh punishments such as beatings.