Demand for labour on the Plantations
Field Work on Plantations
Life on North American Plantations
Resistance and Revolt
Impact of Plantation Life on Children










Demand for Labour on the Plantations - Useful links
 
Slaves, Cotton and Sugar
The story of how the sugar and cotton industries fuelled an ever-growing demand for African slave labour is told at this BBC 'Story of Africa' website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
9generic1.shtml
History of Cane Sugar
The labour intensive and unhealthy conditions of plantation slavery are highlighted in this history of cane sugar.
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/economy/plants/sugarcane.html
Slaves on the Caribbean Sugar Plantations
The human cost of cultivating and producing sugar in the Caribbean are looked at in this interesting online seafaring history site. There are also links to slavery elsewhere in the Americas and a 'Transatlantic Slave Trade Quiz'
http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/arrival/arr009.html
The Sugar and Slave Trades
How the rising demand for sugar triggered a rising demand for slaves.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/Trade.html