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Enslaved Africans were brought from Africa by European slave traders to the Americas. They were shipped from ports in West Africa to European colonies in the Americas. The journey from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean was called "the middle passage", and was one of the three legs which comprised the triangular trade among the continents of Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
Plantation slavery had regional variations dependent on which cash crop was grown, most commonly cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, or tobacco. [3] Sugar work was exceptionally dangerous—the sugar district of Louisiana was the only region of the United States that saw consistent population declines, despite constant imports of new slaves.
Peter, formerly enslaved on a cotton plantation along the Atchafalaya River, photo taken at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863; after the whipping, Peter's wounds were salted, a common practice; [188] [189] the overseer who whipped Peter was fired by slave owner Capt. John Lyons [190] (original carte de visite by McPherson & Oliver)
Of course, slavery wasn’t limited to plantations. “I think there are loose ideas that Black enslavement was 'mostly' confined to agricultural plantations in certain parts of the deep South, or ...
The West Indies developed as plantation societies prior to the Chesapeake Bay region and had a demand for labor. In the Spanish colonies, the church assigned Spanish surnames to Native Americans and recorded them as servants rather than slaves. [30] Many members of Native American tribes in the Western United States were taken for life as ...
The leading historian of the era was Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, who studied slavery not so much as a political issue between North and South, but as a social and economic system. He focused on the large plantations that dominated the South. Phillips addressed the unprofitability of slave labor and slavery's ill effects on the Southern economy.
Whereas death rates for slaves on cotton and tobacco plantations dropped to 33% by the 1780s, chronic malaria and pneumonia was still killing about two-thirds of enslaved people on Lowcountry rice ...
Enslaved children did not go to school and had to work as young as possible. Enslavers gave younger children lighter tasks, like fetching meals and guarding livestock. Enslavers provided enslaved children little to no clothing until they reached puberty. [2]