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Seasoning (slave) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seasoning was a process conducted during the Atlantic slave trade for the purpose of "breaking" slaves. The practice conditioned the African captives for their new lot in life, in some ways analogous...
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That also began the period of "seasoning" for the slave, the period of about a year or so when he either succumbed to the disease environment of the New World or survived it. Many slaves landed on the North American mainland before the early 18th century had already survived the seasoning process in the Caribbean.
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The “seasoning “ process during slavery is no different then what one soldier from Abu Ghraib described as “softening” the prisoners prior to interrogation.
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slave trade n. Traffic in slaves. ... Slavery Comes to the New World ... as many as one-third of Africans died within four years of landing, and few survived the "seasoning" process, as they were unable to adjust to the vast changes in climate, culture, and living conditions.
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the end of the seasoning process in Brazil. Mortality rates were highest during the ... last century of slavery and the first years of the adjustment to ...
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The seasoning process, as applied to the treatment of plantation slaves, was designed to ensure not only that the slaves would become totally dependent upon the dictates of their owners but also to destroy the cultural links which however, the motivation behind African domestic slavery was for the main part political,
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