Most enslaved people lived on plantations, forced labor camps dedicated to the large-scale production of cash crops. By 1850, more than half of enslaved people in the United States grew cotton for export to northern and British textile mills.
Wealth in the South was measured in the terms of land and slaves. Slaves were treated as property, subject to being bought and sold. Some whites were sensitive about how they treated the other humans that they referred to slavery as “that peculiar institution”. Most slaves labored in the fields, but many learned skilled crafts or worked as house servants, in factories or on construction gangs. In large plantation in the Cotton Belt, slaves worked in “gangs” under an overseer. These overseers were sometimes helped by black “drivers” who enforced a sun-up to sun-down workday, 6 days a week.
The correct answer is <span>anti-miscegenation. Anti-miscegenation means being against interracial marriage or interracial relationship. This was legal in the old times and until 1967 it was illegal in some places for African-Americans to be in a relationship with Caucasian people. It changed thanks to the supreme court.</span>
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The Haitian Revolution was different from others in Latin America in
that L'Ouverture and others led a slave revolt that kicked the
French off the Island.
Latin American revolutions were started by creoles-- whites who were
born in the colonies. They didn't incite the slaves against the spanish </span>
