✊🏿ap african american studies review

Task system

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A labor system in which enslaved workers completed individual daily quotas with less direct supervision, commonly used in the cultivation of rice and indigo, allowing greater opportunity for cultural and linguistic preservation.

AP course connection

Topic 2.6: 2.6 Labor, Culture, and Economy

Unit 2