The Portuguese began exporting a number of slaves to the New World in the 1600s. Here, slaves were shipped to the lands of many different colonies. For example, some slaves were sent to work in the Spanish colonies. Additionally, some were sent to Virginia and the Brazilian colonies to work on plantations. States like Alabama and Mississippi, which depended on cotton, had large slave populations. Plantation slaves lived in small huts with dirt floors and little or no furniture. The cabins were no escape from the cold winter winds. House slaves, however, received better cabins, working conditions, and food than field slaves. Many large plantations often needed some slaves to work within the plantation. These slaves who worked inside could sometimes travel with the master's family. Slaves in plantation homes cleaned, cooked, served meals, and cared for the master's children. Slaves who acted as drivers were often persuaded by the master to manage their fellow slaves because they were promised that they would be treated differently and given better privileges. Drivers were usually hated by the rest of the slaves, which led to violence between slaves and drivers. It was common for Southern slaveholders to split families; keep some, sell others when they needed to raise money. The separation and sale of slaves was repeated thousands of times in all slave states. Many slave children, after being separated from their families, had only the faintest memory of their siblings and parents. Even slave owners did not realize that some slaves were married. Married slave couples could be separated and sold at any time. Music and relationship...... in the center of the card...... they were organizing rebellions to gain freedom. A common form of rebellion among slaves was running away. In many cases, slaves left the plantation for only a short time. Slaves escaped en masse, following the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada and the Northern states. Slaves also fled to the Indians and joined them in their wars against the white settlers. The slaves liked to play pranks on the patrollers, whom they called patterrollers or paddyrollers. The Patrollers' job was to control the slaves and prevent them from breaking the laws. Slave patrols had the power to enter a slave's cabin without permission and search it. In conclusion, there were many different levels of mistreatment done to the slaves. Work on the plantation was hard, no matter what they did. The intensity of the abuse by the master was due to where you worked on the plantation.