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










Resistance and Revolt - Useful links
 
Women's Resistance
This site looks at the role of African women as weapons of resistance on plantations. This site includes a powerful series of linked essays.
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/slaves/womens_resistance/
womens.html
The Meaning of Resistance
Available as a PDF document or in HTML format, this UK schools site examines both passive and active resistance by asking younger students to imagine themselves in the situation of plantation slaves.
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/blackpeoples/
slaveresistance.pdf
Religion and Resistance
On this University of Miami Library site, the focus is on the role of African religious systems (obeah/santeria/candomble) and the threat they posed to the plantation system.
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/slaves/Religion/religion.html
Slave Resistance in St Kitts
The St Christopher's Historical society offers accounts of the earliest slave revolts on this Caribbean island and some of the history of St Kitts's maroons.
http://www.swagga.com/revolts.htm
Nat Turner
This site from Millersville University provides a timeline on US slave rebellions , maps and full context and background to Nat Turner's Rebellion. It is designed for use with primary documents found on the PBS/WGBH site Africans in America
http://www.millersville.edu/~ugrr/christiana/introduction.html