On the Plantation, some slaves would have started work at the age of about four as a child-minder. They would usually start running errands and carrying water to the other slaves at the age of five and they would have been expected to work on the plantation at the age of seven or eight.
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Slavery is as old as humans. Slaves were taken from the survivors of battles, wars, and conquests. The word slave is taken from slavs, the southern European people living in the Yugoslavia area.
There is no exact date or place that slavery can be given. Thousands of years of slavery have existed. The bible talks about slaves and slaves were bought and sold by civilizations from the earliest times.
The Slavs originally lived in what is now Russia. Then the vikings from Scandinavia began raiding and later conquering the land, much as they did in Britain and France. So the two cultures that blended together in Russia were the Slavs and the Vikings.
generally positive-- they improved roads, taxation, and communication
Germanic, Huns and Slavs