By 1860, approximately 4 million enslaved African Americans lived in Southern states where slavery was legal. About 2.8 million worked on farms and plantations, and most of them, 1.8 million, were on cotton plantations, while the rest were engaged in growing tobacco, rice, and sugarcane. Most of them were sold to plantation owners at slave auctions, where even child slaves could be found. The first time Django (Jamie Foxx) appears in the film, he comes from a slave auction in Greenville. Plantation owners were also called "planters", a term used to designate those who held significant numbers of slaves, mostly as farmers. Work. There were several categories of planters: large planters (who had more than 50 slaves and were part of the "planter elite" or "planter aristocracy") and medium planters (who had an average of 16–50 slaves). Two huge plantations appear in Django Unchained (the first is in Tennessee and the second in “Candyland,” Chickasaw, Mississippi), and both Spencer “Big Daddy” Benneth (Don Johnson) and Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) are large planters who own more than a hundred slaves. On large plantations there were several classes of slaves. Those who did the most strenuous work were the laborers (also called laborers), who worked longer than any other type of slave, from dawn to dusk, from "I see to I don't see" (even if he does not appear in the film, one could accept that Django was this type of slave). Additionally, on large plantations, some slaves (usually women) worked in the plantation house. They were domestic slaves (domestic slaves/servants) and enjoyed better living and working conditions... middle of paper... they had nowhere to live, their quality of life was very poor and, for this reason they decided to fight to change it. Some did not achieve freedom, but those who did demonstrated that human beings should be treated equally, not based on the color of their skin. Django is the clear example of how everyone can achieve their goals if they work hard. Because slavery was a “dark episode” in the history of the United States and still persists in other countries, people must seek justice and freedom and fight for freedom and rights for all so that all human beings can be free. Works Cited FRANKLIN, John Speranza and Alfred A. KNOPF. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of the American Negro. New York: Knopf, 1975. Pages 142 and 143. http://littledixie.net/Slave%20Housing.htm (last visited: December 8, 2013). http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp (last seen: December 8 2013).