Tools to use against slaves.
slaves, crops
They were used to make money for their owners.
By definition, slaves aren't paid.
The children of female slaves didn't need to be bought.
The slave owners bought their slaves at auctions.
it made plantation owners buy and use more slaves.
A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
Ships from Europe would buy slaves from other slave owners in Africa (YES there were slave owners in Africa!) and then transport them into docks in southern states bordering the Atlantic. There owners from the States could buy or trade them.
Many salve owners in the middle colonies would use either their fists or whips to beat slaves.
They bought them at slave markets and also bread them; children of slaves were regarded as slaves.
They get whiped really badly. some slave owners whip their slaves to death and then buy more slaves.
they used the slaves as they were instruckted to
They would buy new ones
Slaves cost much less: to buy and to care for than indentured servants.
Slaves owners could use brutal force by beating their slaves into submission or they would simply be kind to their slaves while still enforcing a good work ethic.
they coulld use slaves longer