Urban and Rural Slavery

Life Under Slavery-Urban and Rural slavery

Between 1810 and 1830, the number of slaves grew from 1.2 million to roughly 2 million. Slavery had changed a lot. Before, slaves would arrive from the Caribbean or Africa and did not know English. Now it became that most slaves were born in America and spoke enough English to be able to communicate with other slaves. In Rural slavery, men and women toiled from dusk to dawn in the fields. They were often whipped to work faster. In Urban slavery, the promise of cotton wealth led many whites into farming creating openings in skilled labor jobs. As a result, there was a demand for slaves to fill these holes. Many enslaved women and children worked the same jobs as men in the Southern industry.