plantation agriculture

What Did Slaves Do?

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What Did Slaves Do? The vast majority of enslaved Africans employed in plantation agriculture were field hands. Even on plantations, however, they worked in other capacities. Some were domestics and worked as butlers, waiters, maids, seamstresses, and launderers. Others were assigned as carriage drivers, hostlers, and stable boys. What was a slaves life like? Plantation

Where Did People Migrate From To Work On The Sugar Plantations Of Guyana?

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Where Did People Migrate From To Work On The Sugar Plantations Of Guyana? In late 1834, a small group of Portuguese recruited from the poverty-stricken Portuguese-owned island of Madeira arrived in Guyana to work on a sugar plantation in Demerara. Then on May 3, 1835, 40 indentured peasants arrived from Madeira on the ship, “Louisa