Plantation

• Arriving for work at dawn, enslaved people stopped for rest and food at breakfast and lunchtime
• During harvest time, they worked in shifts of up to 18 hours a day.
• Girls worked on estates from the early age of 4. Occupation for girl between the age of 12~19 vaired from field work and stock work to domestic dutys.
• The judges and lawyer of the island wre slave owners, so there was little interest in prosecuting for the mistreatment of enslaved poeple.
• It was common for slaves to be branded with the inital letter of the masters name
• they were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding, rape and imprisonment.
• They were punished for working too slowly, breaking a law, leaving the plantation without permission, or for no reason.
• They lived in slave quators, collections of small basic huts postioned near to master house and overeas huse. People often slept on floor of the one-room building.