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∙ 14y agoSlaves were owned by anyone who could afford one. Slaves were owned to work on palntation, they were used at home as servants, in armies as soldiers, house guards, females were used to be raped sometimes, they were used by home owners to work and bring back wages to owners. whatever the reason was, slaves were mostly used for economic reasons
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∙ 14y agoOverseers punish slaves if they misbehave. They can also be responsible for finding runaway slaves. They answer to the owner of the plantation and cannot disobey or else they'll get fired.
Slavery continued after the revolution for many reasons. Many of the owners did not want to give up their slaves. While some slaves didn't know anything else and continued to work for their owner.
long ago when people had slaves they had to do everything they were asked to do, that probably envolved cooking, cleaning, gardening and whatever else the owner wanted them to do!!!! (if ya get me) hope this helps xxx (just wonder why you wanna know-you don't have slaves do ya-hahahahah)
Harriet Tubman's mother, Harriet â??Ritâ?? Greenowned, and her father, Ben Ross, were owned by Maryland slave owners and she was born in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her maternal grandmother came to the United States as a slave from Africa. Nothing else about her ancestor is known. Even the date of Tubman's birth is uncertain, due to the lack of records that were kept for slaves in the old south.
They had corn. They did not need to substitute anything else for it.
The southern plantation owners and anyone else who owned a slave during those times in which it was legal.
Some risks that can happen for escaping slaves was: .You could of gotten whipped by your slave owners in front of everyone. They do it in front of everyone to teach other slaves never to escape or else they will know what will happen .You could have harsher jobs or slave owners, putting you to work a lot for a punishment. Hope This Helped!
No. A slave is owned by someone else. That is what makes them a slave and they are not paid for their labor. The Supreme Court decided they were property and had no rights. Slaves had to have permission to leave the plantation and didn't need money.
Freedom for slaves meant that the slaves didn't have to be owned and that they could be treated like everybody else.
Overseers punish slaves if they misbehave. They can also be responsible for finding runaway slaves. They answer to the owner of the plantation and cannot disobey or else they'll get fired.
Sharecropping benefited both the workers and the owners. Sharecropping involved tenants farming land that is owned by someone else in return for a share of the crops.
The most important social distinction in the seventeenth century Chesapeake colony was between the wealthy elite plantation owners and the indentured servants and enslaved laborers. The plantation owners had immense wealth and power, while the indentured servants and enslaved laborers were largely dependent on them for work and survival. This distinction shaped the economic and social structure of the colony, with the plantation owners dominating both politically and economically.
The British came to Africa, and traded slaves for sugar. (Sugar was rare in Africa, the kings traded men and women for it.) Then the British took the slaves away on ships, sailed them to America, and sold them. The South took more interest than the North (South had more farms, North more factories.) in the slaves. "Ooh, someone else can do the work for me!" was the basic idea. And so whites owned slaves.
get shipped off to another state or to just run away
Usually buying at slave auctions. Or breeding their own.
The Fugitive Slave Act caused the formation of the Underground Railroad.
His grandfather was a slave; his parents were sharecroppers who earned half of what they produced on land owned by someone else.