SLAVERY

LABOR

• Slaves often worked on picking cotton, and harvesting sugar and tobacco.

COTTON

SUGAR

TOBACCO

HOUSE SERVANTS

• House servants were treated better than the field hand. They had better clothes and were fed better. Their work consisted of cleaning,cooking,serving meals, and caring for the children.

FIELD HAND

• The most common work the field hand did was picking cotton. Working conditions were working in the field tending to crops feeding the animals while an overseer watched you.

HEALTH CONDITIONS

• The health conditions mostly consisted of improper nutrition and unsanitary living.
• The most dangerous plantation was rice because they had to dig dikes where there would be venomous snakes and alligators.

LIFE IN THE SHACKS

• They lived in shacks with dirt floors and no furniture. They ate food that sometimes wasn't suitable for even a animal to eat

LIFE OF SLAVE CHILDREN

• A slave child the master would tell you your tasks or you would be a personal servant to the white family's kids and companion.