"Voices from the fields" - Investigating  Plantation Life 

Instructions:
Consider yourself a historian attempting to understand the day to day life of slaves involved in the transatlantic slave trade who worked on different plantations.  You have just discovered old plantation documents, drawings and descriptions. 

Task:

Choose any of the type of plantations (Cotton, Tobacco, sugar cane or rice)

Using the information from the lesson, research the working conditions on chosen plantation.

Create a first-person diary entry of an enslaved person working there. Your entry must include:

• A description of the type of work done

• Working hours and physical demands

• Any emotional feelings or thoughts 

• A mention of tools, land, weather, or plantation owners

• Hopes or fears you have for the future