Crash Course Questions #24 Atlantic Slavery 1. what were the lives of slaves dominated by?
2. what type of work did most slaves do?
3. What was the average life expectancy of a Brazilian slave?
4. Where did the slave population increase naturally?

1 17th century. In 1619, Dutch traders brought African slaves taken from a Spanish ship to Point Comfort. Several colonial colleges held enslaved people as workers and relied on them to operate.

2The 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.

3Average slave life expectancy

As a result of this high infant and childhood death rate, the average life expectancy of a slave at birth was just 21 or 22 years, compared to 40 to 43 years for antebellum whites. Compared to whites, relatively few slaves lived into old age.

4In the South, the percentage of the population that was enslaved was extraordinarily high: over 70 percent in most counties along the Mississippi River and parts of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. This animation shows the percentage of the population enslaved from 1790 to 1860.

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a slave could own nothing, he can't have a wife, children, or a home. they cant possess nothing and acquire nothing. hope this