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Plantation owners demonstrated trust in slaves by assigning them supervisory roles over other slaves, allowing them to handle money or valuable items, and permitting them to work outside the plantation unsupervised. These actions were usually based on the belief that the slaves would not betray their owners due to the fear of punishment or societal conditioning.
they could be plantation workers or even house servents in the colonial times
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry ... In both societies, seasoned slaves from the Caribbean predominated among the earliest ... Chesapeake than in the Lowcountry, other dissimilarities incline in a different direction ... a typical Chesapeake slave household at this stage of development.
Slaves called a safe house on the Underground Railroad a "station" or a "depot."
House slaves were treated better than field slaves. Field slaves were worked hard by a (usually cruel) overseer, while house slaves worked inside, out of the heat, under a normally slightly kinder person.
Yes, some slaves lived in quarters on the plantation grounds, close to the main house where the plantation owner lived. Others may have lived in slave quarters removed from the main house. The living conditions for slaves on plantations varied depending on the region and the personal beliefs of the plantation owner.
Very small, typically a one room cabin.
Being a plantation owner was their profession. Nobody retired to become a plantation owner unless the came across a great deal of money as a plantation cost a lot to include a house and land as well as slaves. Most southerners didn't have slaves.
A plantation was a large piece of land with a big house, slave quarters and fields of crops. The slaves were made to tend the crops and do all of the hard labor around the plantation.
so slaves wont run away
so slaves wont run away
Blacks were used as slaves for plantation workers, or sometimes they would work inside the plantation owner's house to do chores with the servants.
work in the plantation, do house chores, look after children, clean up
women could have had a job in the rice field, or could have been assigned to maintain the inside of the plantation owner's house, or taking care of the plantation owners children.
She watched the house and took care of the family
Plantation owners demonstrated trust in slaves by assigning them supervisory roles over other slaves, allowing them to handle money or valuable items, and permitting them to work outside the plantation unsupervised. These actions were usually based on the belief that the slaves would not betray their owners due to the fear of punishment or societal conditioning.
women watched over the slaves while working just to make sure that they wouldn't try to get away.