Most Servants did not really have any jobs. Many of them were criminals that where offered a way to earn their freedom back. Others had no job and wanted to start all over in the "New World" but couldn't afford to make their own passage. So they became indentured servants to get over to the new world and earn their way in.
Source: Major in United States History
Most slaves were captured from neighboring countries when Egypt seized them during the New Kingdom. Their jobs included building temples and waiting on pharaohs and priests.
Freed African Americans would take some of their jobs, the workers were socially higher than slaves, and disruption of the Union.
African people work in a variety of fields including in agriculture and healthcare. They are doctors, nurses, farmers, truck drivers, ranchers, and even pilots.
Yes they could be slaves or servants. If they had these jobs they would have to work for their owners and they would only get paid a little if any at all.
The KKK wanted to see African Americans only as Slaves and thought that was the reason they were on earth.
Runaway slaves escaped to Canada because there were lots of jobs and opportunities available. They were not in danger of being captured and returned once in Canada.
the industrial revolution provided a surplus of jobs for immigrants entering the country, along with later on in the north, jobs for African American slaves who escaped.
There is a bit of misunderstanding here concerning slavery. There were no "city slaves" and any African American in the south was a slave. To leave the plantation they had to have a pass. On the plantation there were different jobs that determined the type of slave they were.
The Freedmen's Bureau Wanted To: Give African Americans jobs Reunite families Settle conflicts between former slaves and landowners Build Schools
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slaves had jobs like gardening, cooking, construction, animal tending
Very few jobs were available for them. They may have not have been slaves, but discrimination still existed. The best job for an African American man was on a ship or working in the shipping industry. Some had farms and businesses, but life wasn't that easy for them even in the north.