The slave owners bought their slaves at auctions.
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
Slave owners wanted slaves because they were able to make money or profits by the work performed by the slave.
A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
Some slave owners treated their slaves badly because they saw them as primitive people, not high enough to exist in their league. Because slave owners bought their slaves they regarded them as property and not people. In the past slaves had no rights.
The slave owners bought their slaves at auctions.
Slave owners referred to house servants as domestics or house slaves.
Most sources referred to such people as "slave-owners" or "slave-masters."
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
The people who bought slaves were often referred to as slave owners or slave traders. They were individuals who purchased enslaved people to use them for labor or other purposes.
Slave owners wanted slaves because they were able to make money or profits by the work performed by the slave.
There were no northern slaves or slave owners. That is why slaves went north when escaping with the Underground Railroad.
Slaves were prevented from learning how to read or write. Slave owners were freed of punishment for beating their slaves. Slave owners were freed of punishment for murder of their slaves.
Slaves were prevented from learning how to read or write. Slave owners were freed of punishment for beating their slaves. Slave owners were freed of punishment for murder of their slaves.
Slave owners would punish them by whipping them.
In the South, it was estimated that 350,000 slave owners held a significant number of slaves.
The purchased them at slave auctions. Owners that had more slaves than they needed, and those bringing them from Africa would sell them at slave markets.