Disobedience Of Slaves In Southern Colonies

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laves who worked in the southern colonies plantations and homesteads were harshly treated by their masters. The slaves for example were whipped,mutilated ,rapped among other degrading ways. Reasons for harsh and brutal treatment.

Disobedience of the slaves. Most were the times that the slaves were whipped because of disobeying their masters.

The belief that whites were superior to the blacks/superiority complex of the whites Te white masters always perceived themselves as superior in thought than their as slaves and for this, they would treat the slaves as they wished because after

all they were not as human as the whites.

Rebellion of the slaves. some slaves who tried to rebel by either running away from their masters were captured and

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