AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indentured Servant, Middle Passage, Manumission
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Slave auction - ****all over the test*** know for test*** Seasoning the process of making an african into a slave. Seasoner job is to train people to become slaves. On some plantations the person is white, some plantations the person is black. First step of seasoning teaching how to do what they"ll do, the work. Teach them basic words so they understand what to do. Have to break the will of the african talk them into the idea they"ll be a slave forever. Seasoner has to break them down by torture, beating them. They have to say publicly they agree with all the stuff. They don"t actually believe try to run away, etc. Branding makes animals able to be identified. They brand africans in case they get out/try to escape. Blank brand to put new brand on slave. Keep on branding same place because it has to be a visible spot. Africans and african americans: formative wave and beyond.
