The treatment of slaves in was rarely any good. Plantation slaves were actually called field hands. They had jobs to attend to, such as to plant crops and pick the cotton in the fields. In the home of the master's house slaves worked as servants and was demanded to do house chores like washing clothes and cooking dinner. Some of the other slaves who also worked on the plantations became trained had jobs like blacksmiths, carpenters and cabinetmakers. Slaves didn’t always work in houses or in the fields they began to make progress and switched to taking business into working in factories and while some others were construction workers on canals and railroads, some slaves worked in mines. Owners didn’t want the slaves to be educated because whites thought slaves would get courage to run away. Some slave owners didnt treat their slaves as bad but then again most of the owners did. Apart of the poor treatment slaves were punished or threatned. When slaves worked in groups they were often worked alot or punished.Some who worked as the owners servants was treated as family sometimes. In some cases slaves werent owned anymore if the owner died only when the owner had a will stating them becoming free if they were to pass.
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information source: http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/slavery.htm
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