Plantation women quilted, helped raise their children, and helped their husbands supervise work on the plantation. Women had few legal rights could not vote or preach. The average women had house and outdoor duties. Women respected and bowed down to their husbands regardless of their class.
well to answer, your question, back then women were not treated as equal as men, and for awhile they couldn’t vote, go to war, and they were expected to be the housekeeper and cook,clean, and take care of the kids.
The Americans were huge areas of fertile land, and the European powers needed people to work on its fields. African slaves were a cheap and abundant solution.
