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	The Many Jobs of a Slave Printer friendly format. Large plantations were self-sufficient and required many different skilled workers and craftsmen to maintain the plantation. Skilled slaves who lived at Mount Vernon included a cook, blacksmith, and miller. Listed below, you will find a list of some of the many jobs performed by slaves of George Washington at Mount Vernon during 1786-1787. Tasks Performed by Men Tasks Performed by Women Overseer milking Carpenter weaving Blacksmith cooking dig ditches make baskets saw timber strip tobacco* kill hogs make fences* brickmaker/bricklayer make baskets plow pack fish make fences and livestock pens heap and bum trash *fill gullies hoe new ground gardner washing plant corn, pumpkin and peas carry fence rails house servant clean out stable build roads being house servant* wagoner thin trees in swamp Use the Venn diagram below to compare and contrast jobs performed on a plantation with jobs of today. * tasks performed by both men and women ______________________________ 1 Stephen Innes, ed., Work and Labor in Early America, 178-79. History in Your Own Backyard Lesson Plan: Economic Influences on the Virginia Colony Passages: Tobacco and Slavery in the Virginia Colony Activity: Tobacco and the Virginia Colony Activity: Colonial Virginia Economic System Vocabulary Terms Notes & Primary Source Material: Colonial Virginia Economics Activity: Colonial Virginia Economic Questions Review Activity: Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - Cause & Effect Activity: Colonial Virginia Economic Vocabulary Review Activity: Valuable Tobacco/Valuable Tobacco Questions Activity: Tobacco and Slavery Activity: Slave Labor in the Virginia Colony Activity: The Many Jobs of A Slave Activity: A Fredericksburg Plantation Activity: Plantation Vs. Small Town Primary Source Material: Invoice from Crosbies & Trafford Primary Source Material: Slaves Belonging to the Estate of Fielding Lewis Activity: The Main Idea (Microsoft Word Document) Primary Source Material: Ads from the Virginia Gazette Sources Return to History in Your Own Backyard Index | Primers to the Past
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