Essay On Enslaved African Americans

Have ever wondered if African Americans in the South used to live a normal life or if they lived a unpleasing life? The southern population had a total population of 12 million people and 3.8 million were enslaved African Americans. They went from resisting slavery to developing culture and religion. The role of cotton production and agriculture all played big roles in the lives of African American slaves in the south. The life of African Americans in the south were mostly based on southern farms, plantation and the cities. Many slaves suffered severe suffering or privation so they resisted and endured. While some enslaved people attempted to rebel openly against slavery, others resisted by running away, refusing to work, or destroying farm
Based on what I read in the textbook I know that there is four categories: yeoman, tenant farmers, the rural poor, or plantation owners. Farmers with no slaves where often know as yeoman which generally grew crops, for themselves and to sell or trade. Domestic slaves worked in the house while enslaves African Americans, however, were field hands. To add on, field hands are people who work with the crops. Life on small farms was not common for enslaved African Americans because farmers in the South did not own slaves probably because they lived in poor rural areas. Only a few could afford the many enslaved people. To be clear, 400,000 householders in the South held slaves of a 4 million population. Then, life on plantation for enslaved African Americans which mostly was on cotton. Cities such as New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, and Savannah took a role of playing as trade centers in the cotton economy. Plantation wives were in charge of watching over and tending to ill slaves. Many slaves had high skilled jobs for example blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, and weavers but some had to work all day from sunrise to sunset picking and cultivating