Does life on the plantation revolve around the master an his family?

Plantain workers now a days more freedoms but plantain workers served the master or was not fed or housed as long as u did your work the mast would seem somewhat fair. depending on what kind of person that master was. most were unfair and let their workers go unfed dirty and deseased. so yes back then it did now a days not so much depends on which era you are talking about