Throughout history slave were assigned all kinds of labor. They worked farms, in the fields, with animals, they cooked, cleaned, were blacksmiths, servants, drivers, warriors, bred children. They worked alongside other slaves, with paid workers or together with their owners. They were property and did whatever their owners told them do do.
In some societies they were treated as disposable property. In other societies, they were considered an important asset and their owners maintained the slaves value for work and resale by keeping them healthy and maybe happy.
Slaves worked on plantations
Many slaves in the south worked on large plantations
slaves often worked in cotten fields.if not they were maids to thier masters or cooks.
There were types of slaves and this told what job they did. There were house slaves that worked in the plantation house and there were slaves that worked with the crops. Some slave women were nannies to the plantation children and others were cooks as well as did cleaning and laundry. Many of the male slaves worked as blacksmiths, repaired items, and planted/sowed/reaped crops, took care of the animals. ________________________________________________________________________ In the thirteen colonies, the slaves worked in the south like Florida in cotton fields and plantations. Their "masters" did not like to work so they told these slaves to do all the work for them. Soon, most of the slaves became free when they went to Canada with the help of Sir Guy Carleton. They had to hide to avoid being caught on the frontier between Canada and USA.
The main reason slaves worked hard were because they could be punished if they did not. Slaves could be punished is a number of ways, which ranged from being whipped to being killed.
Slaves worked on plantations
They worked in Southern states.
Many slaves in the south worked on large plantations
Many slaves in the Caribbean worked on sugar plantations. Others worked in industries such as coffee, tobacco, and cotton.
In both the north and the south slaves worked hard and were owned. In the south slaves mostly worked on plantations; in the north many slaves worked in businesses and were able to work for money in their spare time.
Phoenician slaves were the rowers on the ships, worked the farms and in the houses and public works.
he had no job, he was the king. Slaves worked for him.
I ame sure that slaves worked alongside with builders and archictects while building pyramids.In kufu's pyramid though, it was slaves who worked the most.
Most of slaves in Rome and her territories were bought by large landowners and worked in the fields of their estates. A substantial number of slaves worked in the houses of the rich, where they performed as many as 50 different jobs. The miners were slaves because the working conditions there were very harsh. Some slaves were gladiators. Some educated slaves worked for the state as archivists, scribes and the like. A few educated slaves worked as educators for the children of the rich.
slaves often worked in cotten fields.if not they were maids to thier masters or cooks.
As they worked they sang "The message" from 1996 Nasclassic it was written
The People who worked on plantations back then were slaves that were taken away from their families.