Question

What economic activities did enslaved Black women do in South Carolina?
A. Enslaved Black women worked as wagon drivers and tailors.
B. Enslaved Black women worked as teachers for White children.
C. Enslaved Black women worked as field hands and domestics.
D. Enslaved Black women worked as drivers on plantations.

Answer 1

C. Enslaved Black women worked as field hands and domestics.

They commonly performed agricultural labor (planting, weeding, harvesting rice, indigo, cotton, etc.) and domestic tasks (cooking, cleaning, childcare, laundry, nursing, sewing) on South Carolina plantations.