Plantation+Life

PLANTATION LIFE
//Planters are people who own plantations.// //A broker is a person who is paid to buy and to sell for someone else.// //Overseers are people who watch the field slaves as they work and to punish them if they did not work that hard in the field.// //An auction was where slaves were sold as property to the colonists.// //There are two kinds of slaves a house slave and a field slave there were owned by the colonists. House slaves are fed, clothed, and are housed better than field slaves.// //A broker's role is to// buy //and sell. There are people who pay the broker to buy and sell for them. Planters send their crops together with a list and also the broker to buy there for them.// //Field slaves work hard in fields. Overseers watch the field slaves work and if the field slaves didn't work hard they were punished.// 4.D**escribe the life of a planter ( what privileges did they have, what roles did they play in the plantation, how did they relate/treat thier workers, etc).** //A planter's life is to clothe, and provide medical care for their family and the members of the household. The planters took care of their workers and they have right to treat their workers as they pleased.// 5.Upload a picture of a Southern Colony planter and a picture of a slave.Put caption.
 * 1. Define the following terms in your own words: planter, broker, overseer, auction, slave.**
 * 2.Explain in your own words the role of a broker in helping the planter get their crops sold.**
 * 3.Describe the life of a slave (2 kinds of slaves, what they did in the plantation how were they where treated, what laws covered them,etc.)**