USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Branding an enslaved African’s skin with an initialled iron was used to mark them as property to a particular slaveholder but also as a form of punishment. Historic documents reveal children as young as seven were branded on the face. Whipping was only one of the many forms of racialised violence.

Detailed explanation-2: -The treatment of slaves in the United States often included sexual abuse and rape, the denial of education, and punishments like whippings. Families were often split up by the sale of one or more members, usually never to see or hear of each other again.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Slavery in the United States ended in 1865, ” says Greene, “but in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it stretched on unofficially until almost World War I. Slavery continued because many people weren’t aware that it had ended, similar to what happened in Texas after the United States Civil War.”

Detailed explanation-4: -How did hunger strikes by enslaved Africans affect slaveholders during the Middle Passage? Slaveholders knew that an enslaved person weakened by hunger could be sold for less money.