On a small farm every member of the family had to work for hours. They worked hard to make sure the crops were planted, harvested, stored, and shipped to market. As plantations grew in size, however, planters added more workers to do the hard labor.

the kids have to get out of school at 12 or 13 years because they have to help their parents plant! Then the boys could go back to school to graduate but the girls can't go back to school just the boys And there were very little schools because people lived far away, it takes about a couple of maybe even months to get visiters. Once you hire the people you have provide medical care, clothe ,and food for them .A planters job is public work and of course planting. That is a planters life

used to grow plants. Crop buyers from England traveled

the waterways with England made goods, shoes, lace, thread, farm tools,

and dishes. The broker sold the crops in England that are in the colonies and sent back goods

to the colonist. A broker is a person who sales land in different places than the place it is in. Planters had

to keep clearing new land because other planters had been planting tobacco near the tide water soil and ruined

the ground in just a few years. Lastly the planters had to move closer to land because of the tobacco.

A slave could either be a house slave or a field slave. A field slave helped raise cash crops for their masters. They sometimes had overseers that would beat them if they weren't working hard enough. House slaves did mainly inside work. Females did the wash and cleaned the dishes. Males drove the carriges, tended to the horses, and fixed the wagon if it broke down. Children played with the masters' children, but by the age of 10, most kids were working alongside the adults.