Back in the way back days, slaves did. HMMM! I was not a slave & I picked cotton on a Mississippi plantation!
Cotton, Tobacco and sugar
Because he was leaving to Baltimore, and Baltimore was the place everyone was talking of. He was proud to be picked out of so many of the slaves and considered this a gift from god.
Slaves in America were used for a variety of purposes. In the north, more affluent families kept slaves as domestic servants to cook and clean. Slaves could also be used for tasks in production, and some were taught to be skilled craftsmen or ironworkers. However, the vast majority of slaves were used on the vast plantations of the south. There, they planted, tended, and picked the crops (the most common of which was cotton, but also included tobacco, rice, and indigo) for extended hours essentially every day of their lives.
Cotton had to be picked by hand and the invention of the cotton gin allowed for more cotton to be processed. Cotton is a versatile material and can be used by many industries especially textile and clothes.
picked what they grew
Slavers
Cotton is currently picked by machine. They used to have slaves pick the cotton in the south by hand. You seem to have forgotton the people (both white & black) that picked cotton after the slaves & before the cotton picking machines.
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Back in the way back days, slaves did. HMMM! I was not a slave & I picked cotton on a Mississippi plantation!
The planted, plowed, and picked the crops.
Cotton, Tobacco and sugar
Yes. Indigo & tobacco were also what slaves picked.
The most common was for slaves to die was either starvation or disease which they picked up on the slave ships.
Because in the south there were a lot of rice and tobacco crops to be picked,therefore the farmers needed slaves to work on the field and farm.