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Why were slaves whipped?

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because of their behavior problem.

They were most often whipped because they made a mistake in their work, but they were also whipped badly if they ran away
slaves were whipped for different reasons sometimes just out of pure cruelty other times to punish them for not doing their work in the fields, for stealing from the white man, for learning to read or write, for slacking on their day jobs, for trying to escape, for singing, for talking out of turn in front of the white man and sometimes they were whipped to show the other slaves what could happen if they were to misbehave.
Take Harriet Tubman for example she was whipped o badly at sevewn years old because she didnt kn0ow how to take care of a baby. And she didnt know how to dust. Everytime the wmans baby cried Harriet was whippeed. She was whipped so badly it left permanent welts on her body.

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