Because they had send a lot of their times defending their territory
Andrew Jackson had an affair on his wife with one of his African American slaves
The people that kept watch on slaves were overseers they were mostly on plantation farms
Slaves were kept in the West Indies to grow and harvest sugar and molesses.
She walked the UnderGround RailRoad when she secretly made 19 trips to take slaves to freedom. She had walk miles just to get people to freedom.She had to be careful. She always kept a gun in case one of the slaves wanted to go back she said`if you go back you die` `so walk on or die`
The underground railroad was old slavery escape routes.. it was started by Harriet Tubman... there were a series of houses from where the slaves were kept and hidden on their way up to the border of Canada... many slaves escaped from their master and became free this way...often crossing at New Brunswick and Quebec.
Moses was his in a basket in the river. And his sister Miriam kept watch.
in the deck and the hold
The tougher 1850 Fugitive Slave Act was an economical measure to have valuable slaves who escaped to the North to be returned. There were bounties for doing so and penalties for not following the law. It was political in that it brought the political issue of slavery to the non-slave North. Even President-elect Lincoln promised to enforce it. And, by having escaped slaves returned, it strengthened the social structure of the South. It also kept the North "white".
Colonists did enslave Indians, but they easily escaped. So colonists traded Indian slaves to the Islands (Bermuda, Bahamas). Also, there were a lot more Indians than Whites, so the Indians would attack and get their family members back. And, Indians kept a lot of slaves.
They weren’t kept in wooden cages, but in chains.
Slaves were not invented. Slaves were people that were thought of as incredibly insignificant that were used for hard labor.
Kept them in subjection and working hard.