The captain and the men viewed slaves as property and commodities to be bought and sold for profit. They often mistreated and dehumanized slaves, treating them as inferiors and denying them basic human rights.
No. Captain James Cook was not a slave-trader.
The British had a large part in slavery in that the many of the British people were purchasers of slaves. They also held slaves and farmed with slave labor.
British opponents of the slave trade were Americans and French because the Americans did not like slaves and they did not want there to be slaves in British territories
I want to know if a John P. Robertson owned a plantation in eather North Carolina or Arkansas. I did find out he owned many slaves.
There is no evidence that Francis Marion actively helped slaves in any significant way. Marion was a military officer during the American Revolutionary War known for his guerilla tactics, but his primary goal was to defeat the British army, not to advocate for the abolition of slavery.
The more slaves, the more money made by the captain when sold in the slave market.
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So the slaves wouldn't be able to outsmart them.
They were promised their freedom
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