What was the Vesey conspiracy?a black conspiracy to seize CharlestonThe cultivation of which crop required slaves to work in a "task system"?riceWhat is meant by the "underground economy" of the slaves?the economic activities of the slaves outside their normal dutiesWhere did most African Americans in the nineteenth century experience slavery?on plantations with 20 or more slavesWhy were the mortality rates in the plantations of Louisiana often very high?Slaves had to work in the night during the harvest season.How were the lives of urban slaves different from those of slaves working on cotton plantations?Slaves in the cities did a wider range of jobs and enjoyed more autonomy.What impact did the relocation of slaves' spouses to different plantations or farms have on slave families?It resulted in the formation of female-dominated families.Most of the great planters of the pre-Civil War period were __________.self-made menAbout what percent of white southerners were members of slaveholding families?25 percentHow did the non-slaveholding farmers come to depend on the blacks?The degraded status of the blacks made them feel good about themselves.Why did the planters refer to the slaves as "our people"?The planters saw themselves in the role of parents.What did Thomas Reade Cobb mean when he wrote "a state of bondage, so far from doing violence to the law of [the African's] nature, develops and perfects it"?Servitude was good for African Americans.hope i helped :D