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Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.

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Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.

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The plantation owners wanted a source of cheap labor in order to make a larger profit.

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How was the slave owners' racism to the blacks?

The slave owners hated them. They treated them like cattle, basically. The blacks had no rights, and it was shameful.


Did plantation owners support racism?

Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.


How did slave owners convince men who did not own bondsmen to join in the secessionist movement?

Basic racism.


How many slaves can slave owners have?

A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.


How did slaveowners justify enslaving africans?

Racism and greed were two ways that slave owners justified enslaving Africans. They also thought that Africans were not very smart.


What is the relationship between the slave trade and racism?

Slavery led to racism in the Americas because the slaves began to be seen as nothing but slaves, their lack of experience in the real world rendered them very naive, and their culture was much different from the White's. That, combined with the ignorance of the slave owners which was compounded with things like Jim Crowe and the general atmosphere that the slaves were the inferior servants led to racism.


Who benefitted from the slave trade?

the white men benifitted, slave owners


What were slave owners called?

Masters or just plain slave owners


Did slave owners pay slaves?

North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.


Where did the slave owners buy there slaves?

The slave owners bought their slaves at auctions.


How did slave owners benefits from slavery?

Because the slave owners didn't have to pay for the free labour the slave were giving them.


Nonslaveholders followed the leadership of slave owners because?

of their desire to become slave owners.