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What reason explains why we falsely believe that American plantations were largely beautiful estates containing large number of slaves |
This vision derives from a lingering nostalgia among white Americans for what they consider to have been the grand lives of their ancestors |
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What percentage of slaves transported from Africa across the Atlantic came from America |
6% |
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What percentage of southern slaves lived on plantation containing 1 to 9 slaves |
25% |
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What percentage of southern slaves lived on plantation containing 10 to 49 slaves |
50% |
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What percentage of southern slaves lived on plantations containing 50 or more slaves |
25% |
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In what areas of the south did slaves plantations tend to be large |
Low country area of South Carolina and Georgia |
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How did slaveplantations in the Caribbean and South America compare to slavery in America |
In the Caribbean and South America there were few situations in which masters and slaves even saw each other in North America masters and slaves generally saw each other daily |
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What advantage was there for slave owners in America to spread their sleeves out on smaller and medium size plantation |
It makes for greater control |
