Compare And Contrast The Treatment Of Slaves In The 1700s

Throughout the 1700s slave trading was very popular, slaves were often treated terribly with
no respect for privacy or basic needs. The treatment of slaves was terrible, they would be
beat, raped and emotionally abused out of their minds. Slaves from Africa were usually
captured not by the British but by other tribes, this was an inhumane practice but there were
others of which the British could get slaves, If your tribe captured people for the British you
would be rewarded with guns clothes and other accessories that were not native to them when
African tribes had wars any prisoners would be given to the British to be sold on. Another
way was when children were born into the slave trade, this would happen when two slaves
had a child, and the

child would be working usually by the age of 10. The transport of slaves
was rough they would be made to work on the ships doing jobs that were not good at all, they
were forced to sleep on the floor below or on the deck and were given no privacy. Many
times large amounts of salves were crowded onto boats meaning that some of them died from
diseases and when 1 person got a bad disease there was a huge worry that others would catch
it as well. Slaves were given no respect at all in fact the reasons Africans were used as slaves
was due to the belief that they were not equal because they were black. The living conditions
of slaves were terrible and most slaves were considered property instead of people.
After being captured and then transported from Africa many slaves would be sold at auctions.
Different aged slaves would be sold for different amounts as they would be capable of doing
different tasks.