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In Colonial America and the United States, slaves were fed as their masters saw fit.
Some masters treated their slaves like one would treat any expensive property (for they were quite expensive for the times): with great care. They fed them well and treated them well so that they would not lose their investment.
Other masters treated the slaves like they were nothing -- they gave them little, perhaps spoiled, food.
[On a side note, Colonial America and the United States are not the only time and place slaves were held. Slaves have been held since the beginning of time -- by Ancient Romans, Ancient Greeks, Ancient Egyptians, African Tribes, the list goes on. I assumed your question was referring to the Americas because they are the most talked about.]
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What did the slave owner feed the slaves?
they fed them oatmeal and not good uuaaaful
What did the black Americans get fed by the whites in 1900 when th blacks were used as slaves?
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How were slaves treated when they came to America?
The slaves were treated horribly by a lot of people but some people were not cruel to the slaves. On slave ships coming to America from Africa it was horrible. The slaves were all chained together chained together and were only fed potatoes. The slaves often died on ships. If a slave died on a ship, they would be dumped. The slaves were kept in the lower part of a ship. It lacked anything clean and was full of infection. Some of the slaves attempted to jump over bored to die.
What was slavery like in the late 18th century?
It was not nice at all. People got wipped and beatings if they did not do as there masters told them. Slaves were sold and left in horrific conditions, such as when on board a slave boat packed with slaves moving from country to country, slaves were left to sleep in there own urine and poo, they were not fed and other conditions that none of you have had to live in.
What kind of reasons were used by southerners to justify their pro-slavery ideology?
The southern states used excuses like slaves were lucky to be a slave because they were fed and had a place to live, the Bible was used to show slaves had been around for thousands of years, and without slavery the plantations couldn't produce the crops.
