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Slaves were used for every position available to any working person. They managed households for their masters worked as engineers designing equipment and making several new inventions. They took care of the Masters children, the terms of endearment of Uncle and Aunt were often given them many white children grew up in the South thinking of these slaves as family. There is a photograph of Jefferson Davis's children with one of his house slaves; standing beside him with the smallest little girl sitting in his lap just about asleep.

Of course the also did manual labor working on farms and building things. The only actual slavery issue the people running the Civil War in the north was the desire of the freeed slaves migrating north so they could be used as underpaid workers to replace the white workers in factories.

Something not mentioned about slavery in the South at the time of the attack on the South opening the war, is the fact that slavery was in the process of being phased out. The debate was on how to release the people held as slaves. There were the usual people who just wanted to turn them loose and those who wanted to ship them back to Africa, to the country of Liberia, but most people wanted to implement an education system to teach those who did not know how to read write and do math so they would succeed on their own.

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Roman slaves were used for mine work, agricultural labor, household care, tutoring, and military services.

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mostly labor

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