Usually older slaves would be put in charge of the seasoning process, teaching the newly purchased enslaved African how to work in gangs, how to conduct themselves, and how to adapt what they knew in Africa to the new environment of slavery.
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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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Women are forced or tricked to leave their friends and community, their documents taken off them and then the sexual slavery is imposed through a "seasoning" process that breaks down the will and ego of its victims.
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Such devices were used during the process known as seasoning and were designed to break the spirit of new slaves. ... Azurara’s rationalization, stated in mid-fifteenth century, was to be repeated for over four centuries by successive generations of Christian apologists for slavery. ... USA Slavery...
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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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・ 1. Since in Black African Countries Chattel Slavery was unheard of and slavery it self was never used ... ・ 2. Also seasoning was torture inflicted during the Atlantic slave trade for the purpose of "breaking" ...
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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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