Social Trauma and Discrimination
Life on Southern plantations was traumatic. The enslaved were not regarded as people, but property. Many of them were abused by their owners. They worked long hours in sugar, cotton, and tobacco fields, often at excruciatingly high temperatures. Accommodations were very basic. Often just a hut with a wood floor. Owners could sell and trade enslaved people. (Lomax) Much of the slave traffic to the American colonies...