History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1660 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ginning and Baling
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The idea
After weighing at the gin house, enslaved people cared for animals and performed other chores, and often tended their own gardens and livestock afterwards.
In practice
Cotton pressed into bales of four hundred to five hundred pounds and wrapped in burlap.
Where people slip
The gardens were not a concession. They supplemented rations the plantation did not supply.
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