Slavery Life as a slave (plantation)
How do the slave work?
Source1 In foreground several slave children and mother with infant on her back. One of a set of 4 separately published engravings.
While American slaves in 1809 were sold for around $40,000. A slave nowadays can be bought for just $90 making replacement more economical than providing long term care. Slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry with estimates of up to $35 billion generated annually.
What is plantation?
Source2 Pierre Jacques Benoit, Voyage a Surinam . . . cent dessins pris sur nature par l'auteur (Bruxelles, 1839), plate xxvii, fig.52. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
What punishment where slave given?
Source3 Painted by Marcel Verdier and published in Hugh Honour, The Image of the Black in Western Art.
Slaves were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding. Punishment was often do for infractions running away and more
Question What is a plantation? How much was the slave sold for?
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