https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj Made with our massive brains en-us 2021-11-04 16:38:42 UTC 2024-05-28 05:59:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1f1-1f1f7.png masontatum https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1867969779 Large plantations that planted seeds by hand by slaves.
Black belt- a region of the south with the most slaves, specifically south Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.]]> 2021-11-04 16:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1867969779 nathan_hoffman https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1867983337 Most cotton was harvested with the use of a Mechanical picker spindles pick and twist the raw cotton fiber from the bur, and the raw fiber is captured in a basket on the back of the picker. This was all by hand. Once 1850 came around the first cotton picking machine was made that would be operated by a worker. The cotton gin was one way the cotton was cleaned. It was created in 1794 and removed seeds from cotton fiber.]]> 2021-11-04 16:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1867983337 masontatum https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870283883 Cotton was transported in a variety of ways though mostly on rivers such as the Mississippi river and canals such as the Erie. when rail became popular, it became a new mode of transportation. New national roads also began to play a part in making land transport easier. ]]> 2021-11-05 15:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870283883 nathan_hoffman https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870293715
The vast majority of enslaved Africans employed in plantation agriculture were field hands. however, they worked in other capacities. Some were domestics and worked as butlers, waiters, maids, seamstresses, and launderers (these were usually the women). Others were assigned as carriage drivers, hostlers, and stable boys. They also could be enrolled in a ]]> 2021-11-05 15:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870293715 masontatum https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870294094 Used machinery or simple hand tools to work in a production line. Cotton was used to make textiles on looms.
The image is Lowell Massachusetts, a mill town that relied heavily on women.]]> 2021-11-05 15:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870294094 masontatum https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870300559 Conditions were not good. Work was unskilled and dangerous and pay was minimal. Workers were mostly women who wanted an education and immigrants- many Irish- that wanted a start in America.]]> 2021-11-05 15:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870300559 nathan_hoffman https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870312214 The textiles were usually made in New England, Virginia, and Masachuttes and shipped on the Erie Canal and railroads to the new York port an then shipped to foreign countries like Europe.]]> 2021-11-05 15:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870312214 masontatum https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870315731 Much of the textiles were sent to Europe. Money went back to the corporations, with workers only getting a small fraction.]]> 2021-11-05 15:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_hoffman/o22awd09sxdc0mj/wish/1870315731