In addition to being field-workers and domestic workers, plantation slaves also served as craftsmen.
Explanation:
During the time of slavery, they were not only forced to work beyond their physical resistance, but also to perform any kind of job their owner wanted them to do, they needed to have skills in all the areas since in the plantations they were normally ordered to work as carpenter, cooper, boatman, cook, seamstress, and blacksmith, and artisans.
They had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire their culture was also very successful. The Roman's even said that when they conquered Greece with an army the Greeks conquered them with culture.
