Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
The slave owners hated them. They treated them like cattle, basically. The blacks had no rights, and it was shameful.
Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
Basic racism.
A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
Southern slave owners generally viewed slavery as essential to their economic prosperity, social hierarchy, and way of life. They believed that slavery was a natural and necessary institution, and that it provided the foundation for the region's agricultural economy. Many slave owners also used racism to justify the subjugation of African slaves, considering them inferior beings who needed to be controlled and guided.
the white men benifitted, slave owners
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.
Masters or just plain slave owners
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.
Individuals who supported the Fugitive Slave Act were those who believed in upholding the institution of slavery and enforcing laws that allowed slave owners to recapture escaped slaves. Pro-slavery advocates, Southern plantation owners, and politicians who favored preserving the economic and social system of slavery were most likely to support the Fugitive Slave Act.
Slave owners would punish them by whipping them.