Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Henry W. French's text, Born in Blackness.  In this chapter, the author contextualizes the work that typified the enslaved person's experience on Barbados.  Specifically, he looks at how the Drax plantation fine-tuned the types of specialized work practices associated with the sugar plantation that led to high mortality rates and high profits.  He demonstrates that the power of the profits drove the planters to drive the enslaved individuals harder and that much of what we might now see as assembly line kind of work, takes its origins on the plantation.  He also highlights that the grueling form of this work and the fact that white indentured servants didn't do this kind of work, contributed to racist ideology where Blacks were understood as beasts of burden to be worked to death literally because it was cheaper to import a "new" slave that to "care" for those working the sugar mill.