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Back in the 1700’s slavery had just come to the Americas and was thought as a revolutionary entity that was necessary for all people. The owners of these slaves forced them work all day long through all the elements just to get their money. Even if they, by some means, escaped slavery they still did the hard labor, which others were not willing to do, for money. In the beginning all the slaves worked on the plantation, but as time went on they began to be used for common use. They were used mostly for housework and plantation farming. One man stated that “I had watched chickens, I carried wood, gathered eggs and such work as that” until he was 9. Once at the age of 9 he began to do all the labor in the fields with the others. This shows that

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