Life on a plantation. LINDA CONLEY Staff Writer. For a diverse look into the past to see how three generations of black and white families lived together and survived the Carolina Backcountry, ...

Daily life The slavery story that emerges from plantation visits is extremely complex. An owner might feel close to slaves who worked in the house; other slaves might be branded with a hot iron.

Life on the plantations was extremely hard. A third of enslaved Africans died within three years of arriving in the Caribbean. This created a constant demand for new enslaved people to replace them.