What did slaves do in the off-season/winter? Did they just get to chill for months on end?

>>17839293 (OP)
They made them practice picking cotton out in the snow, 16 hours per day in the freezing cold winters, picking nothing....

>>17839293 (OP)
They tended to fuck the wife of the slave owner. She was awful sore by spring.

>>17839293 (OP)
I think Frederick Douglass wrote about slaves getting the week from Christmas to New Years "off", whatever that means. I think it meant they could visit their families sold to other plantations. Apparently it was a kind of pressure valve--he said that had the vacation been taken away, there would immediately be a rebellion. Not that such a rebellion would have been successful.

Apparently most of them drank and gambled their time away
>lol classic niggers
you try being a Confederate slave and not get tempeted to escapism through vice, holy shit. Reminds me of how the nazis at Sobibor kept the jews working the gas chambers drunk

I also remember him talking about slaves being forced to get drunk for their owners' amusement

Fred always seemed like a bro to me. I like him

>>17839421
Christmas was historically a 12 day holiday where literally no one worked and everyone got drunk. None of this was exclusive to slaves. No one is judging their moral fiber on what was perfectly normal in all Christian society until the Jews ruined it.

>>17839309
ywnbaw

>>17839293 (OP)
Theres always peeling potatoes

Not a whole lot of winter in georgia, alabama, etc. I'm sure they found things for them to do besides pick cotton

The south built an extensive rail network using slave labor, often leased from owners, so I’m guessing that downtimes in agriculture were a good time to hand them picks and shovels. Winters weren’t harsh enough in the south to impede railroad building.

>>17839421
>gas chambers
is there a single piece of hard evidence anyone ever was gassed?

Oranges

>>17840842

>>17841535
>Gift Gas
>Hurr durr they gave the Jews poison presents

>>17840764
Indeed. And by 1858 there were more miles of railroad track in the southern states than in all of Europe combined.

>>17839293 (OP)
>What did slaves do
Wildly different answer depending on what part of the country you are asking about
The fact of the matter is, as capable workers, slaves in pre CW America had a very short shelf life, meaning, they were purchased, were capable labor for a not very long time and after that they were essentially dead weight
OP seems to think that it was remarkable that slaves didnt do much over the winter months, the fact is, at least for wealthy Virginia planters like President Washington, the majority of the slaves owned by a planter of his size, (once he started fully staffing his property the slave population at Mount Vernon never went below 200 until his death) didnt do a whole lot of what we would consider work all year round
Im always fascinated by people who in their imagination have black slaves in pre-CW America as this African Adonis's, like every black male slave was fucking Lebron James or something
Nothing could be further from the truth, white, free workers were always much better laborers
Keep in mind, for all of the time that slavery was legal in the US, there were essentially no skilled laborers in the slave population, which is what makes the leftist screech "SLAVE BILDED AMERUCA DURR" so hilarious
No, slaves did not build Independence Hall, Monticello, The Presidential Mansion
In some cases slaves were used for the most menial labor but again, that was all they were cut out for

i bet the females were used as bedwarmers

>>17839421
>Imagine lining up all your slaves to do the thug shaker

>>17841863
>there were essentially no skilled laborers in the slave population,

Would a blacksmith be considered a skilled laborer?

>>17840489
^lol this. daytime highs down there in January are like in the 50s.