Greetings, Class Community.
In the comments box, please answer any one of the questions listed below in a short paragraph. Also respond to two additional posts over the course of the week.
1. What was the name of the invention that made the cultivation of cotton profitable on the North American mainland? Who invented it?
2. What were some of the specific features of slave labor in agricultural communities? How was it different from the work house servants and skilled slaves performed? How was it different from the work urban and industrialized slaves performed?
3. How and why were slaves punished?
4. How did the domestic slave trade effect the family structures in slave communities? How did it effect the diet and health of slaves?
5. Describe the conflicts that the section "The Character of Slavery and Slaves" articulates.
Yours truly,
Dr. Hill
