When slavery was still legal in the US, plantation owners considered slaves to be pieces of property. This meant that slave families could be bought, sold, and subjected to all kinds of horrible treatment.
Southern planters believed that if slaves learned to read, it would weaken the system of slavery.
So that the poor whites could have slaves get thangs for them
There were many things true about Southern planters. Southern farmers often owned slaves, worked large plantations, and harvested crops like tobacco, cotton, and sugar.
yes they did because if they wanted slaves they would need to have them to farm for them so they went to war
i want to find out what the slaves did during the dull or off sesson
A) children who required constant supervsion
they slept with the slaves and had babies.
Descendants of European planters and African slaves are often referred to as Creoles in some regions such as the Caribbean and Louisiana.
planters kept the occupied by giving them domestic works
Crappy.
Many slaves were Baptists, and a lot of Baptist preachers spoke out against slavery. The white planters needed those slaves to work for them, so often times the planters were opposed to Baptist preaching.
they understood that their financial success depended on the survival of the slaves.
slaves were valuable property
Yes planters supported slavery. They did so because slaves were free labor and they needed them to work the fields.
to prevent rebellions
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Children who required constant supervision