when they were just infants older slave children looked after them and brought the mothers to them when they wouldn't stop crying to feed them. sometimes if the masters liked them they run errands for the masters. they checked their fathers traps for animals that were killed and tended the garden, also carried water to the adults working on the fields
As they set out to the land they began to plant their plants in the ground, much like the slave children. But in the early 1900's they all died out.
in the southern colonies,the farming there was done on plantations. there were humongous plantations there. on the plantations, they grew cash crops. they grew crops such as indigo and rice. the most popular crop was tobacco. as jobs, people worded as ship builders, iron workers, slave catchers, and slave drivers.
Slave's in the early period of the United States worked in the plantations at various jobs. Most men worked out in the fields and the women worked inside, cooking and cleaning. In ancient Egypt, it is thought that slaves built the pyramids.
farming, slave work
slave plantations started in the first 13 colonies...it started in the years of1820 thru 1860
English involvement in the slave trade was stimulated by the development of plantations in Jamaica.
no they did not
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Yes, during the early 18th century, South Carolina became heavily reliant on enslaved labor for the rice plantations, leading to a majority of its population being black by 1730. This demographic shift was a result of the significant influx of enslaved Africans brought in to work on the rice plantations.
No slave plantations did not have jails they had to stay in a cellar but when they were getting captured then yes they were indeed put in a jail and chained up to one another
South--worked on plantations or house slaveMiddle-house slaveNew England house slave
Slave Labor ~
Usually children were house servants, but there are cases where the kids worked on the actual plantation, planting and harvesting the crops.