SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Menial and Domestic purposes
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farmers
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construction workers
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butchers
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ships then travelled across the Atlantic to the American colonies where the Africans were sold for sugar, tobacco, cotton and other produce. The Africans were sold as slaves to work on plantations and as domestics. The goods were then transported to Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ancient Rome Besides manual labor, slaves performed many domestic services, and might be employed at highly skilled jobs and professions. Teachers, accountants, and physicians were often slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -The nature of trans-Saharan trade was similar to what it had been before. Berbers brought enslaved people, elephants, spices, and gold north while foodstuffs and manufactured goods flowed south into West Africa.