Question

Which statements are examples of work slaves did in the Americas?



Choose all that are correct.


More slaves worked on farms and in households in the American North than in the Deep South.


Most slaves shipped across the Atlantic worked in the sugar colonies of Brazil and the Caribbean.


The invention of the cotton gin made cotton farming profitable and increased the demand for slaves.


Most North American slaves harvested sugar, as well as rice, tobacco, and indigo.

Answer 1

Answer:

Field hands were slaves who labored in the plantation fields. They commonly were used to plant, tend, and harvest cotton, sugar, rice, and tobacco.

Answer 2

c. The invention of the cotton gin made cotton farming profitable and increased the demand for slaves.

b. Most slaves shipped across the Atlantic worked in the sugar colonies of Brazil and the Caribbean

Explanation:

Invention of Cotton Gin

• The yield of raw cotton doubled per decade after 1800 after the cotton gin  invention. Market was boosted by many Industrial Revolution innovations such as the spinning and weaving machines, and the steamboat for shipping it. By the mid-century America produced three-quarters of the world's cotton production, much of it being exported to England, where it was turned into clothing.
• Unlike other inventors, though, Whitney may not have expected the ways his technology would turn society into anything worse. The biggest of these was the rise of slavery. Although it was true that the cotton gin decreased the work of seed collection, the need for slaves to grow and pick cotton did not lessen. In reality it was the reverse. Cotton growing was so lucrative that planters demand for both slaves and land grew greatly.

Slaves Working in Sugar Colonies of the Caribbean and Brazil

• In areas of the Caribbean and Brazil, where the population was dominated by African slaves on sugar plantations, most slaves were forced into direct or indirect jobs in the sugar industry. There was a dynamic division of labor required for a sugar plantation to work.
• Workers in the sugarcane field worked long hours maintaining, planting, and cultivating the sugarcane under dangerous and hot  conditions. Factory slaves were working under dry, humid, and hazardous conditions to make the sugar cane into sugar and rum. The factory and the equipment were maintained by skilled men such as carpenters.