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What do slave owners do to the slaves when the slaves are too old and too sick?
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Unfortunately, slaves were considered property, so there was not much attention paid to their health and well-being. In fact, they were only considered valuable as long as they could properly perform the duties their owners expected of them. A slave who was unable to work, whether due to serious illness or old age, was considered a liability.
There is evidence of a few "humane" owners (if an owner of slaves can ever be called humane) who kept their aged slaves around and gave them less strenuous work; and if a slave was especially valuable for some unique job (like caring for the master's children), there might be some medical treatment offered in case of an illness. But for the most part, once you could no longer do the work, you were either killed or allowed to die from your illness, at which time you were replaced.
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Did old slaves do the same job as young slaves?
no older slaves did the hard labor. elderly slaves babysat the children until they were old enough to start working themselves. sometimes slave owners would have sex with their slaves to make more baby slaves so that when they grow they can do work. also some slave women were promised freedom if they had 15 babies with their slave owner.
How old do slave have to become slaves?
4
Where did slaves sleep at night?
some slaves were allowwed to sleepin their own little houses at night, but other slave owners provided a house for the slave. SLaves were also provided cheap, riped up, old clothing, and very, very, very little food, and sometimes little pay or no pay at all.
What happened to slaves if they weren't sold?
Sooner or later, all slaves offered for sale in the major new world slave markets during the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries were sold. Unsaleable slaves, like those too old, sick, or in some way useless to a slave owner, were not offered for sale. They remained the responsibility of the current owner. None were killed because they were unsuitable for sale. This is a misapprehension. It should be noted that the great majority of African slaves during this four century period were imported into Brazil and the Caribbean. Very few were imported to North America. It should also be noted that many slave owners were people of color, especially in the Caribbean. People of partly African ancestry were the largest group of slave owners in Jamaica just prior to emancipation in 1832. Significant numbers of slave owners in Virginia were of at least partly African ancestry. And, of course, virtually all suppliers of slaves in Africa were African people from dominant tribes.
Where did slave owners find birth day age. In what year a slave was born?
Slave owners didn't care when or how the slave was born, They just guessed the age according to how old they looked. Hope this helped!
How old did slaves have to be to be a slave?
Any age. Some people were born into slavery and lived their entire lives as slaves.
How did landowners get slaves?
Slaves were bought at slave markets and from other planters. Charleston South Carolina had the largest slave market in the south. A child born to a slave was a slave and by the time they were 2 years old they were all ready working or sold away.
What did old slaves do on plantations?
If they were old they would pick the weeds or if the owner did not want the slave anymore they would of sold it or just abandoned the slave to starve to death.
How did the fugitive slave act start?
== == The Fugitive Slave Law required Northern citizens to help catch escaped slaves. But many Northerners hated the law as much as they hated slavery. They ignored it from the time it was passed by Congress. In this way, the Fugitive Slave Law increased the tension between Northerners and Southerners.
Did the Europeans use the lenni lenape Indians as slaves?
Lenni Lenape were slave owners! In fact Europeans looked down on selling them to the lenni Lenape because they were cannibals. Just as likely to eat a slave once he got old or food was short. This is one of the reasons they called them savages.
What was the treatment of slaves?
Slaves were treated as property. They had their names taken from them, not allowed to speak their native language or to practice their religion. They had no rights. Husband's and wives were sold away from each other and children were sold as young as 2 years old. Get the book TO BE A SLAVE to read the documented accounts from slaves. Read their stories and their words about being a slave.
How much money were slaves selled for?
It mostly depended on the bits and how healthy or old the slave was. If he or she was really old and sick he or she may not sell for very much, but if the slave was young and strong and healthy he or she could go for 100's to 1000's of dollars. It also mattered if they were a field slave or a house slave, that would also differ in price. Hope this helped. If anyone finds this offensive in anyway I am truly sorry and did not mean any harm or mis-turmination.
