- Slaves worked for long hours endlessly clearing the land, plowing fields, raising livestock, making buildings, and planting crops to transform the landscapes into luxurious plantations.
- Labor was intense and if you didn't work fast or the master saw you resting you would get whipped or punish .
- Slaves usually received cornmeal salt herrings, and eight pounds of pork or fish each month for food.
- Women would most their work in the house cleaning , washing ,mending. Female slaves and young children usually served as domestics, tending to the master's family as cooks, servants, and housemaids, and were often starved, whipped, and even raped.
- slaves slept on the floor with just a "coarse" blanket
- Man would usually attend the fields, garden and Horses
- Music and religion is what gave slaves a reason to live and it gave them strength
- slaves believed in Christianity
- slaves lived in bad conditions but they had gone through so much that their bodies and minds were strong.
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm
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