{"id":504,"date":"2009-10-17T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-10-12T18:53:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T23:53:48","slug":"slave-life-on-southern-plantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/slave-life-on-southern-plantations\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave Life On Southern Plantations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_499\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0002.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-499\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-499\" title=\"Slaves' Tobacco on Wessyngton Plantation 1846\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0002-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Slaves' Tobacco on Wessyngton Plantation 1846\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0002-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0002-822x1024.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slaves&#39; Tobacco on Wessyngton Plantation 1846<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">Enslaved African Americans on Wessyngton Plantation worked under a task system.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The plantation owner assigned a task to each individual. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Once the task was completed the slave was free to work on his own crops of tobacco if he chose to do so.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The owner usually assigned tasks that would take the entire day to complete.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, some of the fastest workers were able to complete the assigned tasks and work for themselves.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The slaves were not required to work on Sunday and were off half days on Saturdays.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many of the slaves used this time to cultivate their own crops.\u00a0 The task system required less supervision by overseers than gang labor and gave slaves more control of their time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>The owner kept a list of how much tobacco each person raised and paid them after the crops were sold in New Orleans.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The slaves used the money from the sale of the crops to purchase various items not provided by the plantation owner.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The document above lists the names of men on Wessyngton Plantation in 1846 who raised their own crops and the items they purchased for their families.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enslaved African Americans on Wessyngton Plantation worked under a task system.\u00a0 The plantation owner assigned a task to each individual. \u00a0Once the task was completed the slave was free to work on his own crops of tobacco if he chose to do so.\u00a0 The owner usually assigned tasks that would take the entire day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[46,296,292,256,293,294,45,266,40,212,213,270,263,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}