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Apprenticeship in Slavery

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Blacksmith: Thomas

The children of enslaved field workers on a sugar plantation often followed a patterned upbringing: looking after chickens transitioned to weeding vegetable gardens, and the job of minding animals evolved into carrying food and water for their parents in the fields. By the time they were 14, most field slave children were laboring in the cane fields themselves and the cycle repeated. However, for