Essay On Slave Plantation

In the 1860s, slavery was a popular practice. It was an economically strong concept due to the fact that you didn’t have to pay the slaves. A slave plantation is a farm or estate where cotton, sugarcane, rice, and tobacco are usually grown and cultivated by slaves (Dictionary.com). If working without pay wasn’t horrible enough, these plantations also usually were located in hot, tropical climates. The owners of the plantations were seldom kind to the slaves and often whipped and beat them, sometimes to death. Plantations were located all over the south, some are still around today. Many of the plantations still standing are family attractions. They have been turned into museums and learning centers. They are there now, not only to grow crops, …show more content…
Slaves were not allowed to own property or earn wages. They were dependent on their masters for food, clothing, and shelter, and if the slave tries to escape from the plantation, these basic necessities could be taken away (pbs.org). Once Christianity began spreading throughout the south, plantation owners began making an argument that slavery was more of a domination over less evolved humans who are also less fortunate. They said that slavery was not a practice of brute force at all. In the slave owners minds they were doing them a favor by taking them out of the situations they were previously in, even though they had no knowledge of that situation. Despite the slave owners statements of bettered living conditions, there are well documented instances of brutality alongside the primary unkindness of enslavement in itself (pbs.org). One diary of a Louisiana plantation owner named Bennet Barrow documented the beatings and torturing of his slaves. There were instances of this almost every day. In these diaries he also explained how these beatings were necessary and moral. He didn 't write this to try to get people to think he was moral, he actually believed he was