Large plantations had field hands and house servants. House servants performed tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and driving, while the field hands labored for up to 20 hours a day clearing land, planting seed, and harvesting crops.
Slaves where not needed they only came about because people were to lazy to do their own work. Also slaves came to be because back then and still today people don’t like different and black people were different so the white people had to make sure that they stayed at the top of the food chain so then they made slaves to keep the different people in their places.
