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Slavery in the New World (Slavery in the Caribbean (image, Slaves were…
Slavery in the New World
Slavery in the Caribbean
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Slaves were held on large units that had many different plantations and each one holds at least 150 slaves or more.
The strongest and healthiest slaves would do the toughest work such as planting, manuring, and cane-cutting.
In the Caribbean death rates were high and and birth rates were really low. Due to this situation, they could not sustain their population without having importations from Africa.
Cleaning, guarding, and driving birds away were some tasks the very young and old people that weren't as physical would do.
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After 1801, Verene Shepherd found out that women formed 53.5% of the enslaved population.
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Most slaves, including men and woman, would have to work barefoot because shoes were not apart of the clothing provided. Sometimes they would make foot coverings out of grass and leaves, but that was the most protection they could get.
Plantation owners and managers wanted to increase profits from sugar, so they would import food from North America to prevent from losing cane land by growing food.
Sugar plantations had factories that would change the harvested sugar cane into raw sugar and then convert it into rum.
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Slavery at Mount Vernon
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The marriages of the slaves at Mount Vernon produced a significant amount of children, which caused the increase of the slave population.
Three quarters of the children lived in a houses hold with one parent, and with the mothers away from dawn to dusk, the children were largely supervised by one another.
Nearly two-thirds of the plantation's adult slaves
were married. These marriages were acknowledged
by George, but were not legal.
Slaves worked from sunrise to sunset. So in the winter they would only work for about 8 hours, and for the summer they would work 15.
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