What Jobs did the Black male slaves do on the sugar plantations?

Answer 1

More men were brought from Africa as slaves than women. But some plantation owners preferred women as the harder workers. The 'great gang' or first gang of slaves was made up of the strongest workers. Sometimes women outnumbered men in the great gang. They did all the heavy fieldwork, such as digging and cutting cane.

The members of the second gang were not as strong as those of the great gang. Often the slaves in this gang were the teenagers, the old and the sickly. They would do the less demanding fieldwork.