Some slave owners treated their slaves badly because they saw them as primitive people, not high enough to exist in their league. Because slave owners bought their slaves they regarded them as property and not people. In the past slaves had no rights.
the white men benifitted, slave owners
Masters or just plain slave owners
First of all, you can't "practice" homosexuality. It's a natural sexual orientation. Second, many slave owners had sexual relations with their slaves, and it's quite probable that some of those slave owners were gay.
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
The slave owners bought their slaves at auctions.
Chuck Brown
Slave owners would punish them by whipping them.
Yes, slave owners whipped babies
of their desire to become slave owners.
no Some slave owners even tortured those caught learning to read.
Usually buying at slave auctions. Or breeding their own.