Antebellum Slave Plantations accentuates the need of beginning the business strategy with the slaves that are the crux of the plantation business. To keep the slavery system in existence, there is a substantial need to manipulate the slaves with methods of control. It is crucial to offer an incentive to productive work performance in order to create a successful product. In this case, the plantation itself. This is explained in the form of three external variables that explore the factors of how and why the success of the plantations relied on the …show more content…
Runaway slaves required the plantation owners to compensate for the missing field hands. Slavery in itself was a small society, however, when mistreated, slaves ran away from the plantations into the land areas of swamps and woods that made it difficult for slave hunters to apprehend them. This became a branched society of marooned ex black slaves. Banding societal groups were another result of slavery considering the majority population were black. It was proved that when slaves were badly mistreated, it would ensue runaways and create a more reliant need for more laborers that in the longterm was financially damaging. The loss of efficiency to restock manual labor supply would require plantations to revise the treatment and well-being of the slaves to avoid