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What Are the Conditions on the Sugar Plantations?
A lot of enslaved people from the northern states as well as the mid Atlantic states were sold to the lower south. What were the conditions on the sugar plantations for the slaves that worked there? I'm not an expert on this, but it was brutal. Can you imagine how it would have been for them even when they weren't working? It had to be horrendous for them. And they were so resilient. Most of them, many of them lived through these conditions to produce all of these descendants. They should feel proud of them. The only way we can get their names is looking at these documents to find out who they are.
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