Slave owners would often steal slaves from other slave owners. It was not uncommon for slave owners to brand their slaves to prevent this from happening.
Slaves who died on ships while being transported to slave societies would be thrown off of the ship, without any kind of ceromony, funeral, etc.
Ifanticide was something common in most slave societies. Slaves did not want their children to have to suffer slavery, so if they had a child, they would often chop its head off with an axe.
It was not uncommon for a slave owner to rape a women slave.
Slave owners would often hire slave-hunters, who would kill runaway slaves once they got to the free states.
When Moses Roper, a runaway slave was caught, his slave owner poured tar over his face, then set his face on fire. The next day, he was forced to carry fifty pound weights around his ankles while being beaten. He was soon caught again trying to escape, and his hands were put in vise grips, and his fingers were crushed.
Enslaved Africans came primarily from a region stretching from the Senegal River in northern Africa to Angola in the South.
African law recognized slavery and the right of owners to alienate slaves.
Even under harsh chattel slavery, manumission was possible for a significant number of slaves and slaves usually had a right to keep any monetary earnings and buy their freedom.
About 14 percent of slaves sent to the New World were children under 14 years old; 56 percent were male adults; and 30 percent were female adults.
Slaves who died on ships while being transported to slave societies would be thrown off of the ship, without any kind of ceromony, funeral, etc.
Ifanticide was something common in most slave societies. Slaves did not want their children to have to suffer slavery, so if they had a child, they would often chop its head off with an axe.
It was not uncommon for a slave owner to rape a women slave.
Slave owners would often hire slave-hunters, who would kill runaway slaves once they got to the free states.
When Moses Roper, a runaway slave was caught, his slave owner poured tar over his face, then set his face on fire. The next day, he was forced to carry fifty pound weights around his ankles while being beaten. He was soon caught again trying to escape, and his hands were put in vise grips, and his fingers were crushed.
Enslaved Africans came primarily from a region stretching from the Senegal River in northern Africa to Angola in the South.
African law recognized slavery and the right of owners to alienate slaves.
Even under harsh chattel slavery, manumission was possible for a significant number of slaves and slaves usually had a right to keep any monetary earnings and buy their freedom.
About 14 percent of slaves sent to the New World were children under 14 years old; 56 percent were male adults; and 30 percent were female adults.