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Cruel Treatments of the Life of a Slave


The Africans that were kidnapped and traded and sold into slavery were treated cruelly by the people who captured them. A study of several slave narratives and historical reports shows that the slaves were not only abused physically, but also abused mentally and emotionally. One who were the people most likely to be taken into slavery.

Many of the Africans were abused physically by their slave masters. It is well known that by far the most common punishment was indeed whipping. (Kolchin 113-132). It is said th...