A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
Ships from Europe would buy slaves from other slave owners in Africa (YES there were slave owners in Africa!) and then transport them into docks in southern states bordering the Atlantic. There owners from the States could buy or trade them.
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
Slave owners wanted slaves because they were able to make money or profits by the work performed by the slave.
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.
A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
Ships from Europe would buy slaves from other slave owners in Africa (YES there were slave owners in Africa!) and then transport them into docks in southern states bordering the Atlantic. There owners from the States could buy or trade them.
They bought them at slave markets and also bread them; children of slaves were regarded as slaves.
They would buy new ones
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
They get whiped really badly. some slave owners whip their slaves to death and then buy more slaves.
Slave owners wanted slaves because they were able to make money or profits by the work performed by the slave.
There were no northern slaves or slave owners. That is why slaves went north when escaping with the Underground Railroad.
Slaves were prevented from learning how to read or write. Slave owners were freed of punishment for beating their slaves. Slave owners were freed of punishment for murder of their slaves.
Slaves were prevented from learning how to read or write. Slave owners were freed of punishment for beating their slaves. Slave owners were freed of punishment for murder of their slaves.
Slave owners would punish them by whipping them.
In the South, it was estimated that 350,000 slave owners held a significant number of slaves.