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










Impact on Plantation Life on Children - Useful links
 
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
Mary Burton's celebrated plantation biography Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909) is available and free-to-download from this site in HTML and SGML formats.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/burton/menu.html
The History of Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, related by herself, 1831 is available and free-to-download in HTML and SGML formats at this Schomburg digital publications site dedicated to 19th century African American Women writers.
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97262/@Generic__
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The Narrative of James Williams
This Caribbean slave narrative - A Narrative of events since the 1st August, 1834, by James Williams an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica - is a complete and free-to-download text version of the life and times of a former slave in the period immediately after Emancipation. Available in HTML and SGML formats.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/williamsjames/williams.html
Lesser known American Slave Narratives
Several impressions of plantation childhoods are available through this collection of first-hand accounts of the lives of North American slaves in the 19th century.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html