Question

Which best explains why some plantation owners punished enslaved persons?

to get them to produce more crops
to keep them as helpless as possible
to force them to work harder
to be able to trade them

Answer 1

b-to keep them as helpless as possible

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer : To keep them as helpless as possible.

Step-by-step explanation:

As slaves outnumbered the owners, the owners became afraid of the resistance. Slave overseers often punished them, but sometimes the owners themselves did so. They punished the slaves by whipping, beating, and imprisonment. Punishment sometimes ensued as a result of disobedience, but more often as an attempt to intimidate the slaves. The owners wanted to make them physically and morally weak, to keep them in low spirits.