The first female slave was in
Georgia. It has been shown that female slaves had a much difficult time than male slaves. They are apposed to more burdens and challenges. For example physical, sexual, and very cruel emotional abuse form their owners and other male slaves. At the young age females jobs are told to play with other kids and did easy work that was given to them. At age 10 young girls were trained to nonagricultural labor in domestic settings or put in the fields with the older slaves. If they were put in the fields they were in the fields by five in the morning, and in the evening they worked as late as nine in the summer and seven in the winter. They prepared fields, planted seeds, cleaned ditches, hoed, plowed, picked cotton, and cut and tied rice stalks. Slave women also cleaned, packaged, and prepared the crops for shipment. Some slave owners mainly believed that female slaves picked more cotton then male slaves. If a female slave got to work in the house, they house had to dressing their owners, combing their hair, sewing their clothing or blankets, nursing their infants, and preparing their meals and were on duty 24 hours a day. As a female slave got older they had access to more jobs, such as, washerwomen, wet nurses, cooks, hairdressers, midwives, servants to the children, and house wenches but most worked in cotton field. When a female slave was put up for sale advertisements would be put in newspapers and were wrote with revealing descriptions of the women For example; Stout and tall, about 30 years old, speaks no English, has her country marks upon her body, had on when she went away white negroe cloth cloaths. —Whoever takes her up, or can give any intelligence of her to the subscriber, so that he may have her, shall have 20s. reward. —There is a great reason to think the Indians have carried her off.
The first female slave was in 
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