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
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.
bimini
no they did not
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
Slave Labor ~
Usually children were house servants, but there are cases where the kids worked on the actual plantation, planting and harvesting the crops.
Children on plantations were often taught basic literacy and numeracy skills by their parents or by the plantation owner's family members. Some plantations had informal schools set up by slave elders or overseers. Education was limited, and teaching was focused on skills that were beneficial for the plantation economy.
Many were brought from Africa and sold at slave auctions. Others were born to slaves already on the plantations.