I don't know how late my response is because I don't see the posted date, but the cotton gin made life difficult for the slaves because it ensured their slavery for many years to come. After decades...
During the early times of slavery, slave families were often sold apart. Mothers and infants would be separated at auctions, as would husbands and wives or brothers and sisters. Later, a law came...
My answer would depend on whether you are talking about the legal slave trade, or the consentual slavery lifestyle. Let me know, and I'll answer this one for you. This is during the legal slave trade