Slavery in Brazil and North America before the American Revolution

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Slavery was not just restricted to agricultural jobs like picking cotton or harvesting sugar, but also included mining and other types of work.
The prevalence of different types of slavery in different regions and eras precludes a general example that applies to slavery in general.
Frederick Douglas observed that slaves in the city had more freedom than those on rural plantations due to peer pressure and the lack of an overseer with a whip monitoring their every move.

The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.