On rice plantations slaves lived in harsh conditions and the birthrate was low. This led to a dependence on slave imports from Africa.
Cotton production depended on large plantations, with much more acreage and also more slaves than was typical of plantations in the Chesapeake states like rice production.
The planter group (those who held 20 or more slaves) made up under 4% of the adult white men in the south, held more than 1/2 of the slaves and produced most of the cotton and tobacco and all of the sugar and rice, thus most slaves lived on large plantations.
Life for "house slaves" was easier for slaves working on plantations. The house slaves thought than they were better than the slaves on the plantations.
Where slaves worked within the home instead of in plantations.
Slave labor so dominated the rice plantations of
slaves from west Africa.
They ate a bit of pork and rice
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West Africa
The field work on Southern plantations was done almost exclusively by slaves. These plantations often consisted of cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco and were very labor intensive.
Cotton production depended on large plantations, with much more acreage and also more slaves than was typical of plantations in the Chesapeake states like rice production.
Yes and cotton plantations. Many slaves stood in ankle deep water there to plant rice.
Life on plantationsMany plantations used African slaves for the hard labor, such as cotton, rice, indigo or tobacco.
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South Carolina adopted the use of disease-resistant West African slaves in its rice plantations. These slaves brought knowledge of rice cultivation, contributing to the success of the rice industry in the region. Their resistance to diseases such as malaria also made them preferable for work in the challenging plantation environments.
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