Question

What does the fact that plantation owners would sometimes "brand" their slaves show about the view of the Africans?​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence -- actual or threatened. People, black and white, lived together within these parameters, and their lives together took many forms.

Because they lived and worked in such close proximity, house servants and their owners tended to form more complex relationships. Black and white children were especially in a position to form bonds with each other. In most situations, young children of both races played together on farms and plantations. Black children might also become attached to white caretakers, such as the mistress, and white children to their black nannies. Because they were so young, they would have no understanding of the system they were born into. But as they grew older they would learn to adjust to it in whatever ways they could.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

Basically, Africans were property. A white OWNED him, and he wasn't anyone else's to have. The view on Africans was that they meant nothing except to be sure that their labor was only given to them.