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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.
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What is the names for farms slaves were likely to work on where were they located?
Slaves worked on plantations
Where did many slaves work in the south?
Many slaves in the south worked on large plantations
What type of work did slaves do post civil war?
slaves often worked in cotten fields.if not they were maids to thier masters or cooks.
Where did most slaves work?
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.
Why do slaves work so hard?
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.
