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The "fanner basket" was used for rice and other purposes. Edisto Island, South Carolina
Hulling Rice
The overseer frequently administered whippings to slaves. Because the overseer was himself a slave, the emotional pain of inflicting these punishments was extreme.
SLAVES in America performed EVERY KIND OF DUTY, from washing clothes and looking after the owner’s children in the home, to chopping wood, building fences and planting the crops out in the fields.
SLAVERY
Africans were experienced in working with these crops and adapted well to South Carolina's hot and humid climate. The black population outnumbered whites by 1708, and remained in the majority in the Low Country along the coast.
