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A slave’s life is something that is hard to visualize on account of the lifestyle they lived would be ludicrous in today’s society. Slaves were not considered people of society they were seen as cheap replaceable machines. They were forced to conduct work th ....

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.... was to stay for some time. Not even a century later between ten and eleven million Africans were sent to the United States to serve as slaves, about forty percent of southern population was made up of slaves. When all of these Africans arrived the legal status of them was poorly defined, and some managed to become free after a period of time, much like the indentured servants. But in the late 1600’s the colonies decided to enact laws that regulated the slaves. The most important regulation at the time was the introduction of lifetime servitude; even the children of a slave would be enslaved for life. Slaves were forced to perform numerous tasks, ....