Plantation Life

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Plantation Masters
 Plantation Women
 Indentured Servant
 Slaves

Westover Plantation
Westover Plantation

Courtesy of www.jamesriverplantations.org
 Carter's Grove
Carter's Grove

Courtesy of www.history.org
 Berkley Plantation
Berkley Plantation

Courtesy of www.colonialconnections.com


Questions

  1. What is your job on the Plantation?
    1. If you are a Plantation master/lord or Plantation women how did you acquire your plantation?
    2. If you are a indentured servant or slave how did you arrive at the plantation?
  2. Describe the Plantation.
    1. What crops do you grow?
    2. What tools do you use?
    3. Who is working on the plantation?
      1. Give reasons on how the workers came to your plantation.
  3. Describe a typical day like on the plantation?
  4. Draw an image of your plantation.  You need to include the house, crops, and at least 3 tools you use on your plantation.  Indentured servants and Slaves are not tools.


Websites

Plantation System:  The History Channel.com

Information on the Plantation System during the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War.

James River Plantations:  Williamsburg.com

Explanations of different platations.

Carter's Grove:  Colonial Williamsburg

Description of plantation life at Carter's Grove.

Westover Plantation:  Virginia's James River Plantations

Description of plantation life at Westover Plantation.

Berkley Plantation:  Virginia's James River Plantations

Description of plantation life at Berkley Plantation.