Question

what work did the plantation worker did?

Answer 1

There was a strict social order on the plantations. The white owner or his white manager was at the top of the social structure. Below him were other white employees, such as overseers and book keepers. Amongst the black slaves, skilled craftsmen such as carpenters or sugar boilers ranked above ordinary field slaves. At the head of the field slaves were men and women known as drivers, who were supposed to keep the field slaves hard at work, by use of the whip if necessary. Those slaves chosen to work in the house were considered to be of higher status than the field slaves. It could be a terrible punishment for a house servant to be put with a field gang to do heavy field work after the lighter duties in the house. There was also an order based on colour. The blackest slaves usually had the hardest work. The lighter-skinned slaves, often the children of the owner or manager by a slave woman, were often given the better jobs, kept as house servants or trained in a skilled job.