Same with any other slave be them Black, White, or any other color; rest, eat, have sex, hope or pray for salvation from bondage, get drunk to forget their misery, and sleep.
Egypt
The peasants and the slaves
they made slaves work on it
oxen, donkeys and slaves
they made slaves work on it
They were slaves.
they get killed
The Pharaohs told the slaves directly or sometimes they sent their men to inform them.
Because they had thousands of peasant farmers to do the work when the Nile flooded and no work was possible on the land.
most Anciet egypt slaves were greeks and romans.
In 2013 there are no slaves.
The Israelites were slaves in Egypt for roughly 400 years .