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Question: What jobs did slaves do in america!?
explain what they had to do!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


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They basically worked on plantations in the south, mainly harvesting cotton!. They weren't payed and were treated poorly!. They had to work long hours in the fields!.
Cotton is hard to "purify" because you have to pull out all the individual seeds in the plant!.

There were little or no slaves in the North because they opposed slavery, which is why the Civil War beganWww@QuestionHome@Com

Slavery was dominant in Plantation life, so the majority of slaves worked in harvesting cash crops!.Www@QuestionHome@Com