This is obviously mistreatment of any human being and it’s horrible that people would force slaves to work and make money for their masters. They were also described as great slaves because they did the “hardest and most part of the work; the most laborious of which is the felling of trees and the like, to which kind of slavery (if it must be so called) our woodcutters in England are exposed”. It’s clear that they performed difficult and physically draining work without much compensation and no freedom. It is also clear to see from the article about runaways that slaves were treated like property. They were in the same category as missing farm animals so it’s obvious that slaves were not treated how a human being should be treated. This article helps to show the horrible abuse of African American slaves by showing a real article that was printed during that
This is obviously mistreatment of any human being and it’s horrible that people would force slaves to work and make money for their masters. They were also described as great slaves because they did the “hardest and most part of the work; the most laborious of which is the felling of trees and the like, to which kind of slavery (if it must be so called) our woodcutters in England are exposed”. It’s clear that they performed difficult and physically draining work without much compensation and no freedom. It is also clear to see from the article about runaways that slaves were treated like property. They were in the same category as missing farm animals so it’s obvious that slaves were not treated how a human being should be treated. This article helps to show the horrible abuse of African American slaves by showing a real article that was printed during that