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What was life like for enslaved africans in North America?
Nearly 20% of the People on Board has died. Slaves were treated harshly, slave owners whipped and beats the slaves.
Were owners mean to slaves?
Many were - and the worst ones tended to be downriver in Mississippi. (Hence the fear of being 'sold down the river') Others who were highly respectable, like Robert E.Lee, treated slaves harshly because they thought blacks would abuse lenient treatment. Curiously, the Confederate President was a Mississippi landowner who treated his slaves so well that they didn't want their freedom.
Why were slaves treated bad?
Slaves in the south were treated poorly because they often disobeyed their owners by refusing to work.
How were slaves in the south treated during the civil war?
they were treated bad
Who treated the slaves the worst?
America
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