Some slaves worked as butlers, cooks, or nurses in the home, and had better care than the field hands. What hours did these slaves work? -
@astro

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Some slaves worked as butlers, cooks, or nurses in the home, and had better care than the field hands.  What hours did these slaves work? -
@astro

new2luv · Answer

I was thinking about 12 work hours or so

DADDYROXY · Answer

Didn't the slave work morning to night?

new2luv · Answer

so 24/7

DADDYROXY · Answer

It was like on going job for them

DADDYROXY · Answer

yea I think so

Astro · Answer

"On a typical plantation, slaves worked ten or more hours a day, "from day clean to first dark," six days a week, with only the Sabbath off. At planting or harvesting time, planters required slaves to stay in the fields 15 or 16 hours a day." -https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3041#:~:text=On%20a%20typical%20plantation%2C%20slaves,or%2016%20hours%20a%20day.

new2luv · Answer

@astro wrote:

"On a typical plantation, slaves worked ten or more hours a day, "from day clean to first dark," six days a week, with only the Sabbath off. At planting or harvesting time, planters required slaves to stay in the fields 15 or 16 hours a day." -https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3041#:~:text=On%20a%20typical%20plantation%2C%20slaves,or%2016%20hours%20a%20day.

thank you

Astro · Answer

Np~