Is this true or false enslaved africans on plantations were treated fairly and paid well?

Good answer Reg, Mamiankas is what would be expected from our current educational establishment.





Your question is valid, and very thought provoking.





I have been reading and listening to the interviews of former slaves.


http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html


These are remarkable stories. You will get a true insight into what it was like to be a slave first hand from the slaves themselves.Is this true or false enslaved africans on plantations were treated fairly and paid well?
Depends on who you ask. I personally cannot imagine slaves having any kind of comfortable life, that's why the term is ';slaves'; and not ';paid servants';. Slavery existed in all cultures in all races, and it doesn't look like it was a good thing.





I had a history teacher say that based on logic, slaves had to have been treated well because they were an ';investment'; of the slaveowner and treating them right only increased their work output and work potential, while that makes sense, if slaves were thought of as less than human and disposable, and in come cases soul-less, why treat them well?





Based on history after abolition - blacks couldn't vote, lynching, segregation - if slaves were treated well as slaves, wouldn't they have still been treated even BETTER as free men?





Slavery existed and still exists - there's more evidence out there to support inhumane treatment than there is of humane treatment. Don't fall into the the mindset that ';if it was so long ago it couldn't have been that bad'; ignorance and denial isn't bliss in this case.Is this true or false enslaved africans on plantations were treated fairly and paid well?
They were slaves. They weren't paid at all. Occasionally, they would receive a coin for some service, but they usually had no income at all, and were completely dependent on their owners for everything.





As far as treatment is concerned, it ran the whole gamut from kindness to sadism. It depended on the owner.





Regardless of how well they were treated, though, they were still enslaved, and that was totally wrong.





Good for you, mamianka
I am STUNNED that this question would be offered - was a social studies teacher trying to provoke you? Have you read ANY American history???? Do you not have ANY friends of color who can enlighten you???