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Many times it was too expensive to buy the entire family of slaves, or the entire family was not needed. Also, one of the family members may be old, broken, too young, or handicapped. Remember that slaves were not treated as people. They were considered property. For example, if you lived on a farm and you needed to buy a horse, would you buy the old broken one along with the young one you could use, just because they are related? Probably not.
- Slaves were often separated from their mother when they were very young so as to prevent emotional ties from being formed between the two, (a mother might get upset over the treatment of her child, for example, and cause problems).
- Together a family is strong and more confident than if they were alone - a confident group could be dangerous if they decided to rebel against their master.
- So breaking up family made slaves feel alone- it lowered moral.

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