k. The way work was structured depended not only on the type of work, but on the judgement of the master or overseer about how to get the most work out of the slaves, individually and collectively.
In addition those considerations, there was the differentiation between house slaves and field hands. Some of the slaves on the plantation, principally but not exclusively women, were assigned to chores within the actual plantation house and on its immediate grounds. Others, principally but not exclusively men, were assigned to the agricultural work of the plantation. Generally speaking, members of this latter group, in virtue of their capacity to do the work upon which the economic survival of the plantation household depended,
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