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Africans were forced to collect cotton for their owners

You name it they had to do it everything from farm work to cane cutting cotton picking.men women and children were hired out or bought for sex and they were even forced to fight each other in contests. A slave could be forced to do anything their owner required of them. They were even bred and then had too stand by as their children were sold of.

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