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PLANTATION LIFE AND WORK - Coggle Diagram
PLANTATION LIFE AND WORK
The slaves now only existed to work and had no future other than a life of endless labour - and their children after them, and their granchildren etc.
Owners began to 'season' their slaves as they brutally forced enslaved african people to adapt to new working and living conditions, learn a new language and take a new name
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Most slaves, including women and children, worked on sugar plantations where conditions were very harsh
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Most enslaved people, including women and children were field hands
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Enslaved people were subjected to severe discipline, torture, cruelty and sexual abuse
Others worked as house slaves, cooks carpenters, blacksmiths etc - all the trades required for a successful plantation
Farming meant back breaking work, firstly holes 15cm deep were dug for plants, a backbreaking task for the line of slaveswho moved slowly across the field with whips of the overseers ready to lash at them
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On some plantations slave families were given small gardens to grow yams and vegetables, and raise pigs and poultry
Some enslaved people tried to escape, but if they were caught they had no mercy from their owners
Terrible whippings and torture were common and some enslave people had their hands and feet cut off, owners could also execute enslaved people who rebelled
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Because of the poor living condtitions on plantations diseases such as TB, rickets and infections like worms were common