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Southerners viewed slaves as property. The southerners defended this by saying that The Bible allowed for them to have slaves.

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How many slaves did most southern slaveowners have?

25% of southern slaves owner owned slaves. They had more then 50 slaves


Why did slaveowners not tell their slaves their birthday?

Salve owners did not tell slaves their birthdays as they did not deem it to be important. Slave owners thought sharing this information with slaves was improper.


What required people in all states to help slaveowners catch their runaway slaves?

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required people in all states to help slaveowners catch their runaway slaves by allowing for the arrest and return of fugitive slaves to their owners, even in free states. It also imposed penalties on those who aided or harbored fugitive slaves, making it a crime to assist escaped slaves.


How were the slaves treated in latin America?

very poorly because they weren't fully spanish


What colony had the most enslaved Africans?

the southern colonies....they had slaveowners that got rich by selling tobacco[i know, right] more slaves planting tobacco...more $. those are one of the reasons.


How were mixed raced slaves treated?

Mixed-race slaves were generally subjected to harsher treatment than other slaves because they were often seen as a threat to the racial hierarchy due to their proximity to whiteness. They faced discrimination, mistreatment, and exploitation from both white slaveowners and other enslaved individuals. Additionally, they often struggled to find acceptance and a sense of belonging within both white and Black communities.


Why do you think slaves families were treated unfairly?

Slaves and their families were treated unfairly because they were considered property, not people. Slaveowners had the power to separate families through sale or punishment, tearing them apart without regard for their relationships or well-being. This lack of legal protection or recognition of familial bonds allowed for such mistreatment to occur.


How were slaves treated in jail?

The slaves were not treated good at all I guess you can try to imagine jail now and then multiply it by 100 and then you will see how the slaves were treated.


How did whites treat the slaves?

Most of the whites treated the slaves horribly. Some treated them fair, but most treated them horribly. They weren't treated like the whites, there were basically treated like dirty rags. The slaves were taken away from their families and never saw them again unless they were freed or ran away. When slaves ran away the got caught. The slave owners killed the slaves by beating them to death.. Nobody wants to be treated like that. They even had little kids working as slaves, the kids only got two shirts a year, and if they got worn out they wouldnt have to go bare naked. Life wasn't easy as a slave.


Who had it wosrt Holocaust victims or slaves?

A large proportion of the Holocaust victims were slaves. If you are meaning to compare to American slaves; you need to know that American slaves though treated poorly were actually treated better than most slaves in history, including people who were slaves under Nazi Germany.


Slave on the run?

There were many accounts of slaves being on the run. This is because slaves were treated very badly in most cases.


How were slaves treated on the average southern plantation?

Slaves were treated in a deplorable manner. In most cases, any means to make them feel like less than a human being was the route taken by most slave owners.