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The task system is a system of labor under slavery characteristic in the Americas. It is usually regarded as less brutal than other forms of enslaved persons' labor. Under this system, each enslaved person is assigned a specific task to complete for the day.
The gang system is a system of division of labor within slavery on a plantation. It is the more brutal of two main types of labor systems. The other form, known as the task system, was less harsh and allowed the slaves more self-governance than the gang system did. The gang system allowed continuous work at the same pace throughout the day.
Gang system: Form of enslaved-labor management, contrast task system. Griffe: Also, griffonne, [9] a color/race descriptor most commonly used in Louisiana, usually describing someone who was one-quarter white and three-quarters black; [10] for other examples of the detailed race-mixture vocabulary developed in Louisiana, see Mulatto § Louisiana.
Slave women were often raped by white overseers, planter's younger sons before they married, and other white men associated with the slaveholders. Some were sold into brothels outright. Plaçage, a formalized system of concubinage among slave women or free people of color, developed in Louisiana and particularly New Orleans by the 18th century.
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Most plantations in the American South used the gang system, in which slaves were worked in groups from sunrise to sunset and had little leisure to acquire property. In the low country of South Carolina and Georgia, however, the task system prevailed. Slaves were compelled to perform certain specific tasks; but once completed, the rest of the ...
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